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...Palestinian conflict has drawn attention away from challenges and issues--including the secular-religious divide and the socioeconomic status of the Arabs and Jewish immigrants--which are the real stumbling blocks to Israeli national unity. If Sharon executes his campaign pledge to end the single-minded obsession with formal peace talks that characterized Barak's government, a policy which would obviate the need for a unity government, then perhaps some of these pressing domestic issues can finally be addressed...
Historic preservation interests in the past have mostly been organized ad hoc as individual developments were proposed. For citizens groups, the conservation district designation provides some measure of formal support for their efforts...
...absence of a formal judiciary, the 85,000 accused perpetrators are being tried under the auspices of Gacaca, a state-organized system of popular courts for trying genocide criminals...
...with a newly appointed official both underscored the deep political divisions within the Philippines and reinforced the perception that Arroyo is having difficulty reconciling the interests of various pressure groups. The new President did, however, take an aggressive stance toward the whispers that she might be overthrown: during a formal press briefing, she confronted one prospective coup leader by cellular phone, asking him, ?Is it true that you are staging a coup against...
...Dumas? troubles began in 1997, when magistrates investigating a welter of Elf- related scandals stumbled upon the mysterious figure of Deviers-Joncour. Tipped off to her exorbitant lifestyle by an anonymous letter, investigators soon discovered her links to Dumas. The former model was put under formal investigation in November 1997, serving five months of preventive detention. She initially attempted to protect her ex-lover but finally, feeling spurned and isolated, told investigators that Dumas had secured her Elf job and that her main assignment was to try to make him reverse his veto on the sale of six frigates...