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...letting his real ideas out of the closet. But his worst moment came when, addressing high-schoolers in Beersheva, he was confronted by Ilil Komey, 16, who told Sharon that her father had suffered mental disturbances ever since he was a soldier in the Lebanon war. "Ariel Sharon, I blame you for causing my father suffering for more than 16 years," she said. "I blame you for many things that caused suffering to many people in this country." Sharon's imagemakers stepped in: he stopped visiting high schools and canceled appearances before journalists...
...setbacks didn't seriously dent Sharon's lead in the polls. For one thing, Israelis' attention was distracted by the intifadeh. Three more Israelis died in terrorist attacks last week, bringing the total to 48 in this intifadeh. Whether or not Israelis blame Sharon for the Lebanon debacle, Barak carries the can for the intifadeh deaths. Sharon aides expect that his advantage in the opinion polls will slim to as little as 5 points by election day next Tuesday. But by the standards of Israeli votes, that would be a comfortable...
...Hanging (1997) and Heads by Harry (1999), Yamanaka--a third-generation Japanese American raised on the island of Molokai--wrote dialogue in the pidgin English she spoke as a child, for which her characters are stigmatized, as she was herself. But in Father of the Four Passages, the blame for the family's travails lies squarely within the home, and no one speaks pidgin. "I got tired of being the pidgin poster girl," says Yamanaka. "I wanted to try something new, see how far I could...
...Southeast Asia is a fresh one, uncovered by police in the region only in the wake of Sept. 11 and the rout of the Taliban and the recovery of al-Qaeda documents in Afghanistan. When five bombs were detonated across Manila on Dec. 30, 2000?which the police now blame on Fathur?no one knew who was responsible or what was the motive. One theory at the time held that the bombings were an attempted coup by the Philippine military. Now Southeast Asian leaders say an al-Qaeda-like organization has sprung up, with the vague but familiar goals...
...Paige concedes that the dropout rate in Houston is "undesirable" but doesn't blame it on testing. "Most of it had nothing to do with the school-based factors," he says. "We were improving those rapidly." Paige instead faults societal factors such as teen pregnancy and the lure of employment, even for dropouts, in a strong local economy...