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...Even if a peace offensive gets off the ground, the Israeli and Palestinian belligerents may not notice. In just the last month, the ferocity of the conflict has taken on new dimensions. The catalyst for the current round of hostilities was the Feb. 14 bombing of an Israeli Merkava Mark 3 tank in the central Gaza Strip, which killed three Israeli soldiers. An Israeli official told Time the bomb contained the high-density plastic explosive C-4, large amounts of which the Israelis believe are being smuggled into Gaza through tunnels running under the Egyptian border. "It's frightening...
Coldplay is expected to release a follow-up to Parachutes that, Martin says has been partly inspired by the events of September 11. If this album comes close to matching the depth and subtlety of it predecessor, it will be not only a tribute to events past, but a catalyst, to establish Coldplay’s ongoing presence in international music...
...International Olympic Committee would rather it all resolved as quickly as possible, and will do its best to get Salt Lake talking about something else now that everybody's got a gold. The question, though, is whether Marie Reine Le Gougne will be the catalyst for an overhaul of what cynics call "boxing on skates." Even if we never hear from Le Gougne herself, she has reminded us that figure skating has been tainted by backroom dealing, pre-judging by judges and other vices one might expect from a highly popular "sport" that has few inherently objective measures...
Sweet was again the catalyst on Catlin’s second goal. Midway through the third period, the freshman out of St. David’s, PA passed the puck to Catlin from behind the net. Catlin deked left and beat Davis stick side to extend Harvard’s lead to 6-2. Emily Haigh also received an assist on the play...
Countless colleagues cite Knowles’ outward charm—“extremely smooth and very much the Oxford don,” in the words of Professor of Chemistry and Physics Eric J. Heller—as a crucial catalyst for advancing his agenda, which ranged from the thankless task of cutting the Faculty’s budget deficit in the early 1990’s to luring prominent scholars to Harvard in his more recent efforts to increase the size of the Faculty...