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...world will celebrate United Nations Day tomorrow. The Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, will release a brief note expressing cautious pride at the state of humanity while warning us about unforeseen challenges in the future. From Argentina to Harvard to Zimbabwe, ceremonies will express the sentiments and thoughts of age-old cultures; music will play, symbolizing the harmony of cooperation; politicians will deliver flowery speeches. Oh, and perhaps ten to twenty people will be killed, and many hundreds wounded, in Israel and in the Palestinian territories...
...judicious application of violence could strengthen his negotiating hand with the Israelis. Or he wanted to restore his footing with Palestinians alienated by the deeply frustrating process of peace. Or he had given up hope of ever negotiating a settlement acceptable to his people and decided to let them express their profound dismay...
When Sharon went to the Temple Mount to say "It's ours"--in-your-face confirmation that the Palestinians would never get a deal on Jerusalem that they could accept--it was pure provocation. Palestinians would inevitably express their anger. The Chairman was apparently ready to seize on it too. As a Tanzim chief tells it, Barghouti had visited Arafat in his Ramallah office the day before. "What do you think of Sharon's visit?" Barghouti asked. Arafat allegedly responded, "I want to light a fire, and I want it to burn the Israelis...
Justice asserts that the big brands' coziness limits competition and that together they unfairly keep other teams (read American Express and Discover) off the playing field. Since 1976--after a Justice Department review nudged the brands toward so-called duality--banks have been able to issue both Visa and MasterCard. The brands are actually joint ventures owned by the banks that issue cards. Trouble is, the government says, the same powerful banks control both associations. The biggest banks have been able to sit on one brand's board of directors and hold great sway in the other. That...
...President Clinton and Gore have both called the governor's wife to express condolences. But Tuesday night Gore and Bush (who, of course, as a governor is a peer of Carnahan's) will have to make those condolences during their opening statements to a "town hall" audience in a state of mourning...