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...troops from the West bank towns and to lift the closure. The list of Palestinian demands are long, but I don't know if the Americans will be able to respond positively. They can't. Still, the Palestinians may find themselves accepting European and American conditions because they are weaker. But in light of the feeling on the street, nobody's expecting a breakthrough...
...There are thing Israel could do that would make things move more smoothly, but it doesn't convince more than a tiny percent of Israelis to say that if you didn't have this closure things would be better. The view among most Israelis is that the weaker the closure the more likely it is that one of those guys will come in with a belt of explosives strapped around him. And there have been so many attacks recently that it's hard to fault that logic. The one on Friday got all the headlines, but there were half...
...safety net, providing economic padding--and a political bulwark--for the inevitable layoffs and business collapses. Koizumi and Takenaka also need to go into sales mode, a Japanese version of the Bush road show on taxes. And, on a technical note, Japan needs to let its currency slide. A weaker yen--say, 135 to the dollar--would strengthen corporate profits. The danger is that a sliding yen could set off a round of devaluations, as neighboring economies rush to slash their exchange rates. Here is where the U.S. can, finally, help Japan. By nodding support to a slow devaluation...
...class. Advocacy groups are pushing to get rid of the game; and Neil Williams, an Eastern Connecticut State University phys ed professor, has created a P.E. Hall of Shame, ranking dodge ball as his No. 1 villain. "It allows the stronger kids to pick on and target the weaker kids," he charges. "It's like Lord of the Flies, with adults encouraging...
...show isn't quite as good on icons of craft as one might wish. Its conspectus of ceramics is quite good, but it's weaker in furniture. There is a fine suite of low-slung Modernist furniture in gumwood designed by Rudolph Schindler in the 1930s for his unbuilt Shep House in Los Angeles, and a splendid 1908 sideboard with inlays of fruitwood, ebony and abalone shell by Greene & Greene, those Pasadena masters of the Arts and Crafts style. But it's hard to get much more than a hint of how much really good furniture was being made...