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...Israel attacks Iraq, only two people stand to benefit—Saddam Hussein and Ariel Sharon. Saddam needs allies, and bringing Israel into the fight would wrest Arab states from the U.S. coalition. Meanwhile, Sharon will welcome a wider Arab-Israeli war, for it would give him an excuse to increase his stranglehold on the Palestinian territories, and quite possibly, to expel thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank. Israel must not play into the hands of these two war criminals...
...Coaches’ poll, Harvard finished one point behind Cornell, the narrowest margin in the poll’s history. The Media poll had Cornell in front by a wider margin, leading Harvard by 12 first-place votes...
...street level, this lull means Ali is grumpier than usual because taking home poor tips guarantees a regular ear bashing from his wife. In a wider context, however, it's even more serious: luxury hotels across the country?a legacy of the Israeli-Jordanian peace accords of 1994 and the subsequent joint tourism projects undertaken a few years before the start of the second intifadeh?are nearly empty, and the tourist sites deserted. Any passing traveler can currently walk into a five-star property and pick up a room fit for King Abdullah II himself for less than...
...Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN), a news service run by the U.N., reported that the arrest “flew in the face of an appeal by Malawi’s four major donors for the government to allow wider consultation before going to parliament with a third-term bill...
Lindsey Miller, of Equal Exchange Coffee, spoke on the wider importance of the campaign for Fair Trade coffee...