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...forcefully to, in the words of White House spokesman Scott McLellan, "dismantle the infrastructure of terror." It's far from clear that Abbas has sufficient means even if he had the political will to go to war with Hamas. His security services remain weak and dispersed, and may be weaker on the ground than the militant groups in different parts of the West Bank and particularly Gaza. More importantly, in the absence of a consensus in Palestinian society behind pursuing the "roadmap" route, Abbas may struggle to persuade his gendarmes to follow orders to act against fellow Palestinians. President Bush...
...million or so kids who have lazy eye: they may not have to wear their eye patch all day anymore. Until now, doctors have recommended that children with lazy eye, or amblyopia, wear a patch over the good eye for six hours a day to help strengthen the weaker one. That prescription often meant that kids had to wear their patches at school and suffer the taunts of classmates. But in the May issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology, researchers report that the eye patch effectively treated moderate amblyopia in 189 children whether it was worn for six hours...
...Like Arafat, Abbas has started out trying to negotiate with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the hope of persuading them that ending terror attacks is in the wider Palestinian national interest. Having a considerably weaker political base than Arafat, Abbas is likely to be acutely aware that the path of confrontation with those groups could spark a Palestinian civil war from which the Palestinian Authority emerges even weaker. Instead, he seeks to maintain Palestinian unity on the basis of a common understanding to pursue the "roadmap" - an approach that has Israeli security chiefs warning that Abbas has no intention...
...played really great team defense,” Peterson said. “We covered all the counterattacks and our defense against that was fantastic, and that was weaker earlier in the season...
After having faced—and lost to—No. 1 Princeton each of the past three weekends, the No. 2 Radcliffe women’s lightweight crew took advantage of the opportunity to compete against a weaker opponent, as the top Black and White boat defeated Georgetown Saturday on the Charles River...