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...Wednesday, Belgians appeared stunned by Henin's decision: for all her reserve, she is a national icon. The move also comes just a year after Clijsters retired, age just 23; she has since married and become a mother...
...College has taught me a different sort of recollection. I am dependent on quite a different type of memory, a detached one. September 23, not a Friday, perhaps a Wednesday this year, is a date. It tells me eight years have passed since I lost my mother. On September 23, there may be flowers on my family’s dining room table. My father may tell me one of his patients remembered my mother, or that they sent along a card. It is a memory not of the emotions that surround death but of the time that has passed...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was discussing terrorism with Ehud Barak, Wednesday, when an aide rushed in to inform the Israeli Defense Minister that Palestinian militants had just fired a rocket from Gaza into a woman's clinic located in a large shopping mall in the southern Israeli port city of Ashkelon. "Let's go down there together," Barak told Rice, according to an Israeli source. "I want you to see with your own eyes what we're going through...
...Rescue workers who crawled through the debris of the second-story clinic reported that 15 Israelis had been wounded in the attack, three of them seriously. Earlier on Wednesday, Israeli forces killed four suspected Palestinian militants in Gaza. But the militants' use of the medium-range Katyusha rocket was not an act of revenge as much as a warning to Olmert...
Much rests on the outcome of an arbitration effort by a delegation of Arab foreign ministers set to begin in Beirut Wednesday. But few hold out much hope that the Arab delegation will succeed where months of Arab and international mediation to end the 18-month political crisis have led nowhere. "The negotiations are failing. The fighting will continue," predicts Asrawi of the SSNP...