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...were barred from traveling into Jericho. The Oasis closed. "I didn't look upon the people who came there as Jews or Muslims," says Issam, who earned what was for a Palestinian the princely sum of $1,000 a month plus tips. "They were all just gamblers to me." Even if calm were restored, he doubts Israelis would return. These days, it would mean gambling with their lives. If Israel declares a separation, the Khatibs face months of hardship in their rundown house on the edge of a refugee camp. With such examples in mind, the Israelis who oppose separation...
Israeli officials acknowledge that they don't yet know exactly how to separate. Barak has distributed The Disengagement Imperative, a recent book by Israeli political scientist Dan Schueftan, to each of his Cabinet ministers. Schueftan calls for absolute separation, even in hot-button spots like Jerusalem. "We need to partition Jerusalem, not because the Palestinians deserve to rule over any of it," he asserts, "but because we don't deserve to be stuck with the Palestinians." Technocrats are still figuring out how to handle a physical separation. Military sources say it will mean building Israeli-only roads around Palestinian towns...
...unskinned dog. In a downtown hospital, all the lights were out except for those in the foyer that illuminated the colorful portrait of Kim Jong Il and his father Kim Il Sung. The D.P.R.K. lost an estimated half a million people to famine in the mid-'90s, and even now, because of this year's spring drought and fall typhoons, many in the countryside must supplement their diet with "wild foods," meaning berries, mushrooms and even grasses, according to the World Food Program...
...announce that one of America's oldest and most revered institutions was splitting into four companies. AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong told a roomful of reporters that his own aunt could still sleep easily putting her money in Ma Bell and living off the dividends. Lower-level Bellheads even joked about the career opportunities the split would create. "You always wanted to run your own company," one quipped to another. "Now you're going to get the chance...
...plan calls for Ma Bell to be divided into four distinct companies: AT&T Business Services, AT&T Consumer Services, AT&T Broadband and AT&T Wireless. That's a lot of slicing and dicing, but it gets even more complicated. Some of the new companies will start off as "tracking stocks," meaning they're independent in name only. AT&T Business will become the parent of AT&T Consumer. And the whole thing will take two years to happen...