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...Begin and Shamir, both on Great Britain’s Most Wanted Terrorists’ list, won the 1977 elections for the same reason that Mishaal and Zahhar defeated Fatah loyalists in last week’s Palestinian elections: the previously dominant party, Labour and Fatah respectively, had been torn by scandals and accusations of corruption and misuse of national funds. The erosion of Labour’s popularly enabled the grand entrance of Likud into Israeli politics; similarly, widespread disillusionment with Fatah has underpinned Hamas’ political success.Nor was the rhetoric of Begin and Shamir any less inflammatory...
...take Katie any day of the year.”In a league lacking interior dominance—Dartmouth’s Elise Morrison is the league’s premier post player, but she’s out for the season with a torn ligament in her foot—Rollins is fast becoming the Ivy’s best on the low block. She seals impeccably well and has great hands, providing Harvard the inside force it so lacked in a perimeter-oriented offense a year ago.Best of all, Rollins combines her low post moves with a consistent...
...since he was a kid. But Massarano doesn't mind. "I've been called worse things, being from Texas," chuckles the 50-year-old, who searched Pitkin County for years before finding the deal of his downhill dreams in the sprawling Hyatt, where the ghosts from bacchanals at the torn-down Continental Inn still dance...
...Those same concessions may have actually torn the union apart. Older workers were thrilled that pensions and retirement age were untouched, but younger workers fretted over the 1.5% of their salary that they would have had to contribute toward their own health care, especially since those payments could rise with increasing health care costs in the future. In the end, a demoralized Toussaint, who spent the last month campaigning vigorously in support of the contract, blamed the defeat Friday on a cabal of outside meddlers and internal enemies who peddled ?downright lies? to the membership...
...from the White House every morning, I must admit to being perhaps unhealthily obsessed with homeland security. I take comfort in the police cars on the corners of downtown streets. I like seeing frail old ladies frisked at the airport. I want my luggage x-rayed, hand-searched, and torn apart by dogs if that?s what it takes to keep my plane from being blown out of the sky by some misguided holy warrior looking to spend eternity with a gaggle of doe-eyed virgins...