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...intolerable to the Palestinians, who want a state now and are willing to continue a kamikaze war until they get it. The Israeli offensive against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank--and the Palestinian leadership's continued sanctioning of suicide attacks against innocent Israelis--has led some to wonder whether even statehood can bring a lasting peace in a place where hatred runs so deep. A Palestinian gunman from Arafat's Fatah Tanzim militia who escaped the Jenin camp tells TIME that "we are very grateful to Sharon because he made every Palestinian child, every Palestinian woman and every Palestinian...
...President George W. Bush received regular briefings, Milan tried to make sense of its unwanted attention and the improbable gash in Il Pirellone (big Pirelli), Italy's first bona fide skyscraper, now owned by the Lombardy government. Though terrorism had been ruled out, many in Milan continued to wonder if the building was not a target in some other way. Maurizio Invernizzi came to the site to "try to figure out the mechanics" of the crash. "That it was simply an error is hard to believe,"' the Milan bank teller said, pointing upward. "He hit [the building] right...
...ours," a U.S. official says sardonically. So last week, when the Palestinian fanatic, on the mend at a secret U.S. facility overseas, declared that among the next targets of Osama Bin Laden's terror cells would be U.S. banks along the Eastern seaboard, the Americans were inclined to wonder if he was merely taunting them. "He's a smart guy," says one US official familiar with Zubaydah's remarks. "If he could screw with our heads, he probably would...
...then there are the artistic visions which never quite made it to the finish line. Supervisor Mari Jaye Blanchard pointed out a few panels propped up in the corner. “There’s a couple of them, I just really wonder about their lack of enthusiasm,” she sighed. The panels showed half-painted heads under fireman’s helmets, and large blocks of gray. Meaning to depict the collapse of the World Trade Center, the artists apparently lost interest in the project as the terrorist attack slipped down in the headlines...
First of all, the comparison of Summers to the Israeli Prime Minister is manifestly inappropriate. Sharon is fighting a war; Summers’ battles concern Faculty size and grade inflation. Secondly, we wonder who West was referring to when he mentioned “the wrong crowd.” Summers is a university president who interacts with other top academics from around the world; is anyone whose political view differs from West’s a member of the “wrong crowd?...