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...Domestically, his position is very tricky. I attended the funeral in Nablus earlier this week, and the images I saw - large numbers of gunmen, militiamen riding around in trucks and so on had more than a whiff of Lebanon in the 1970s. And that's a serious problem for Arafat. When you take that rising militancy together with the anger expressed at Arafat's own administration for not protecting Palestinians fighting intifiada, it appears that his control has been severely weakened. Early on in the intifada, I believe he could have stopped it immediately if he really wanted...
...there's one thing the whole Smart Tags debacle taught us, it's that the new and improved Microsoft is prepared to retreat at the first whiff of consumer backlash. So if you care at all about the right of web designers to use whatever language they like without fear of users being blocked from seeing their efforts, write Microsoft and let them know you'll be thinking twice about purchasing XP. After all, it's a pretty dreary world without a regular shot of Java...
...massacre of Nepal's royal family may have caused us to shake our enlightened heads at the reductio ad absurdum of a country's having three Kings in four days [WORLD, June 11], but what about our own medieval mentality that has us still going gaga over any whiff of royalty? Isn't it time both East and West stopped clinging to long outmoded values, such as inherited wealth and power, that are residual metaphors for divine right? It is time to kiss Camelot goodbye. KATHERINE E. KREUTER Rancho Mirage, Calif...
...write and draw stories using the many superheroes, like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, owned by mainstream behemoth DC (owned by AOL Time Warner, the same parent company as this website.) Would there be a price to pay for playing with the big, bad money? Sure enough, a whiff of sulfur may fill your nostrils as you plunk down your...
...doors, unexpected stumbles, crises of faith. We all made it to the top of the mountain together. There’s no need to push people off, or to set up a VIP area. Then again, the temptation to exclude and reject is remarkably powerful. I remember getting a whiff of righteousness and superiority earlier this year when I had to choose the next arts executives for this newspaper. Suddenly, it became so easy to accept my role as an arbitrator of worthiness—to judge people, to classify them. This person goes in the good pile, these...