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Those who voted for Sharon were aware of his background and character. Unless the Israelis chose Sharon expecting a greatly changed approach to foreign policy, his election symbolizes Israel's bitterness and a belief that violence will be the only way to pacify the region's growing tensions...
...this election made no more difference than in 1960 because not all ballots were counted. This is not partisan rhetoric. Americans learned that in national elections large numbers of ballots are discarded or incorrectly tallied. Indeed, college students' frequent voting method, absentee ballots, are not opened in many towns unless the number of them is greater than the margin of victory. In California, for example, one million absentee ballots remained uncounted long after...
...writing and then by enduring a public skewering from hostile legislators. Alternatively, the climax could come a lot sooner: Wahid's adversaries are trying to convene a special session of the People's Consultative Assembly, which has the power to oust him. Either way, Wahid could face political ruin unless he can quickly mend ties with parliament...
...These countries are too poor to doctor themselves. The drugs that could begin to break the cycle will not be available here until global pharmaceutical companies find ways to provide them inexpensively. The health-care systems required to prescribe and monitor complicated triple-cocktail regimens won't exist unless rich countries help foot the bill. If there is ever to be a vaccine, the West will have to finance its discovery and provide it to the poor. The cure for this epidemic is not national but international...
...driven us up the dirt track from the 350-bed hospital he heads in Tugela Ferry. "We have no medicines for AIDS. So many hospitals tell them, 'You've got AIDS. We can't help you. Go home and die.'" No one wants to be tested either, he adds, unless treatment is available. "If the choice is to know and get nothing," he says, "they don't want to know...