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...While Arafat is widely pilloried for his rejection of the Camp David deal (he prevaricated over Taba), the irony is that, if anything, Sharon was even more vehement in his rejection of the same. Indeed, Sharon stressed upon assuming office that he had no intention of seeking a comprehensive peace deal with the Palestinians, believing this was neither possible nor desirable. Rabin's pursuit of that goal, in Sharon's mind, was, at best, a tragic mistake. Instead, he envisaged managing the conflict between the two peoples via a series of long-term interim agreements, which the Palestinians are bludgeoned...
...member 9/11 Commission, officially known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, was created by congressional legislation in late 2002. After receiving one extension, the commission released the report in July 2004. The report has spent 11 weeks at the top of The New York Times’ paperback nonfiction bestsellers’ list...
Technology and freedom have long gone together, marching lockstep throughout history, each in tandem conferring benefits upon the human race and releasing humankind from its abject servitude to capricious nature. Now, the historical process has culminated in yet another palpable victory for human freedom. Soon, online course registration will liberate Harvard students from the tyranny of the study card...
...contest between greed and fear, elections are a contest between hope and fear. This year fear is winning. We have gone way beyond the traditional red scare or Medi-scare deployments. The Kerry campaign warns darkly that the President has secret plans to do all kinds of nefarious things upon re-election: reinstate the draft, privatize Social Security and, brace yourself, lower dairy prices - the prospect of which in Wisconsin, where Kerry made the charge last month, can make a grown man cry. Of course, the biggest "fear" scandal of the campaign thus far (the night is young) was Vice...
...Chicago marketing firm. "They just have to align their expectations with reality." DiCicco has heeded that advice. In July he called a meeting of about 30 ex--WUSA officials, sports leaders and consultants to revamp the league's business model. Gone are the five-year financial projections relied upon in the old league, which was founded on Web-like hysteria after the 1999 World Cup victory. (John Hendricks, chairman of Discovery Communications, was so "intoxicated" by the World Cup victory, he persuaded his cable brethren at Comcast, Cox and Time Warner, which owns TIME magazine, to help fund the start...