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...Arafat’s authoritarian style of governance, no Palestinian leader has had a chance to shore up much support within the Palesinian Authority and few are well known outside of Palestinian Authority (PA) circles. As a result, Arafat’s death/assassination will likely create a power vacuum in the Occupied Territories. Moderate leaders will rush to fill it, but so too will Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Moreover, the fragile coalition of Palestinian groups that make up the PA will likely dissolve, as key figures vie for power. Some splinter groups from the old Palestinian Liberation Organization might even...
...rosters have been culled from CIA and Defense intelligence briefs, battlefield reports, local newspapers, spies, rumors. Every day the intelligence bloodhounds search for fresh clues on where these leaders might be and vacuum up electronic and human after-battle reports to see if they can cross another name off. But so far, the scorecard is all too blank. Pentagon list keepers say only three of the 20 men on the al-Qaeda list are thought to be dead; perhaps 12 of those on the Taliban list have been killed or wounded or have defected. On Saturday came word that...
...quit the government. But neither the Bush administration nor the Israelis are ready to relinquish Arafat altogether - not because they necessarily believe he's on the verge of an epiphany over ending terrorism, but because they fear that removing him from the equation would simply leave a dangerous power vacuum and even more chaos...
...there may be trace amounts of anthrax floating around our vast and labyrinthine postal system. Does this mean we should all panic? Start opening our mail in a vacuum-sealed hallway? The short answer, as you probably guessed, is no. For a more considered response, TIME.com spoke with Dr. David Straus, Dr. David Straus, professor of microbiology and immunology at the Texas Tech University Health Science Center in Lubbock...
...public school system espouses only a diluted version of secular humanism and a weak idea of tolerance. It has become a moral vacuum. Inspiring teachers are prohibited from discussing their moral or religious convictions with their students, and some students absorb this sour nihilism in dangerous ways. Recently, four teenagers in the Boston area were arrested for plotting a sick, heartless killing spree in their high school. Mass murders, gang activity and violence in public schools are now all too common. When will we learn that students in schools without positive moral aspirations will sink into festering amorality, alienation...