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...annual, ever changing list is ridiculous. Really, how influential could last year's people have been if they're not in the Top 25 only one year later? It's more like a list of who is "hot." Your magazine doesn't need this kind of gimmick. TOM ZEIT Minneapolis, Minnesota...
...outrageous claims" about the Jewish commandant of the camp at Schwientochlowitz, near Auschwitz, even though my claims that the man killed the Germans with clubs, crowbars, stools, and the Germans' own crutches would be confirmed by 60 Minutes, The New York Times, and the German newspaper Die Zeit...
...digging a provocative incursion into their terrain, but in truth, it was only the match thrown into the tinderbox of accumulated Palestinian fury. For months, Israeli and Palestinian intelligence officials had warned of an impending explosion in the territories. In August, Ali Jirbawi, a political scientist at Bir-Zeit University in the West Bank, said, "Scratch the surface, and you find a state of anger." Palestinians were in despair over the paralysis in the peace process brought on by the election in May of Israel's hard-line Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Still, the ferocity of the convulsion shocked even...
...Rafat in the West Bank, on suspicion of his involvement in armed attacks by the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas. A year later, Palestinian guerrillas for the first time resorted to suicide attacks in the fight against Israel. An electrical-engineering graduate of the West Bank's Bir Zeit University, Ayyash allegedly built the device used in the initial blast, at a West Bank diner popular with Israeli soldiers. For the next three years, the tactic was used repeatedly, causing the deaths of 77 victims and the wounding of more than 300 others. Israeli authorities believe Ayyash personally built...
...peace deal with Israel, this time dissidents within Fatah. While infighting in Lebanon is an old phenomenon, in the Gaza Strip, it was something new. "All the factions had sworn that they would never resort to violence," said Ziad Abu-Amr, an expert on Islamic fundamentalism at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank. "Now taboos have been broken. The glass has been shattered. So we are waiting for another round. Are the conditions of the + first round still present? Yes, and more...