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...Arafat's lips: he immediately turned around and rushed into his office. For Arafat, last week's swap of Palestinian and other Arab prisoners for a kidnapped Israeli businessman and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers represents a real problem. The three-year intifadeh has left a power vacuum in the West Bank and Gaza that Hizballah, the Beirut-based, Iranian-backed Shi'ite group, has gradually been filling. The prisoner swap, mediated by Germany, boosts Hizballah's support among Palestinians and illustrates the ineffectuality of Arafat's regime, which has fruitlessly demanded that Israel release Palestinian detainees. "Arafat...
...doubt it," says Adam Anderson, a former touring pro and now Sydney-based coach. Though he praises him for his achievements, Anderson wonders whether Hewitt was perhaps the weakest No. 1 of the past 15 years, having seized the mantle in the vacuum left by Sampras' decline. With the huge-serving Roddick and the gifted shot-makers Federer and Ferrero now close to their peaks, the return path for Hewitt looks rocky. And because a lower ranking means tougher tournament draws, Hewitt will have to play well just to hold his position, let alone improve it. "He's trying...
...questions were not developed in a vacuum by people in University Hall,” Dingman said, who said he thought last year’s surveys were “extremely helpful...
...baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...Nashville, Tennessee. Gibson was a pioneer of the Nashville Sound, a spare style without fiddles or pedal steel guitars, and wrote two of his most famous songs-Oh Lonesome Me and I Can't Stop Loving You, a Ray Charles hit in 1962-on the day his television and vacuum cleaner were repossessed. "When I wrote those songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom," he said...