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...addition to Broadbent, two other freshmen should make an immediate impact—Princeton’s Yasser El Halaby and No. 4 Yale’s Julian Illingworth. Each has already staked his claim to his team’s top spot, with El Halaby vaulting Yik and last year’s intercollegiate No. 2, Will Evans, narrowly beating Bullock last weekend at the Ivy scrimmage. Illingworth, who defeated Broadbent in the USSRA 19-and-under National finals last winter, also beat Samper at the Price-Bullington Invitational earlier this month. Still, Bajwa believes he got the better...
...Iraqi government is using its monopoly over information to exploit such sentiments. Echoing official propaganda, Yasser Thamer, a 21-year-old engineering student, told me that he was convinced that the U.S. wanted to attack Iraq to control its oil. "Iraq has the biggest reserves in the world," Yasser said. When I asked Lina Ibrahim's younger sister, Zina, 21, a translator, how she could actually believe that President Bush actually was planning to bomb schools and hospitals and kill Iraqi civilians, she replied, "I read it in Babil" - the tabloid daily newspaper run by Saddam's son Uday...
...Yasser Arafat doesn't deal delicately with threats to his power. When former Cabinet Minister Nabil Amr called in September for reform of the Palestinian Authority, Arafat had the chief of his special forces fire a few warning shots at Amr's home. Leaders of Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization got the message. Scheduled to vote on reform a few days after the attack, they swallowed their criticisms instead...
...Even if its current coalition collapses there's little doubt that Sharon's party will return to power. While that may be taken as a sign of stability, the fact that it's matched on the other side by Yasser Arafat's own success - against mounting odds - at clinging to power suggests that it may be the stability of deadlock. Mindful of the extent to which its bona fides in the Arab world are judged through the prism of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the U.S. has lately been sending State Department emissaries to the region touting what it calls...
...Palestinian sources familiar with the payouts, Hizballah has distributed $2.5 million in the West Bank over the past six months. These payouts are filling the gap left by Saddam Hussein's money man, who was nabbed in Ramallah by the Israelis a month ago. Under interrogation, Raked Salim implicated Yasser Arafat in the Iraqi leader's cash pipeline to the families of Palestinians killed in the intifadeh. Salim told interrogators he distributed $15 million of Saddam's money during the intifadeh. Families of suicide bombers were paid $25,000 each. A senior activist in the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front...