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...seen by most Israelis as a symbol of terrorism surprised his rivals by accepting a little instead of all-or-nothing: home rule in the squalid Gaza Strip, a hotbed of extremism, before any full autonomy for the West Bank outside of Jericho. The Gaza Strip had been the orphan no one wanted; certainly not Israelis, whose policing of the turbulent slums has become a shame and burden to them. So many protesters have been killed, wounded and thrown into jail that Jews had come to see the suppression as a moral cancer they had to excise. To save himself...
...parties and making them pay. Wielding the legal doctrine of "joint and severalliability," the Environmental Protection Agency could hold any single toxic dumper responsible for a mess created by several -- and retroactively at that. If no one could be found to pay, then the site would be deemed an "orphan" and cleaned up by Superfund's own resources, gathered largely from taxes on the petroleum and chemical industries...
...show begins right where the last one left off, with the plucky orphan gamboling around a Christmas tree with her adoptive plutocrat. In steams a social-welfare commissioner with a bad attitude, played by Alene Robertson as a cross between Bella Abzug and Shelley Winters at their coarsest. The adoption is invalid, she tells Daddy Warbucks, because he doesn't have a wife. The rest of the show is devoted to marrying him off and extracting him from the tentacles of the adhesive and ambitious commissioner. Along the way father faces financial ruin, daughter runs away and turns hobo...
...comedy in Manhattan Murder Mystery, but he seems distracted. King of the Hill takes a tough-minded look at boyhood during the Depression. MUSIC Clint Black sings radio-ready country pop that has a splash of introspection. From Britain's Gavin Bryars comes a minimalist milestone. THEATER That spunky orphan is back, but in Annie Warbucks, her appeal is much scaled down. BOOKS Showdown at Opal Creek is a clear, sensitive account of the timber wars in Oregon and the fate of the last old- growth stands...
SUCCESS HAS MANY FATHERS, AND FAILURE IS AN orphan. That is clear as the long process of fixing responsibility for the Waco tragedy has begun. In Texas, arson investigators discounted the idea that the FBI started the April 19 blaze, since it flared up in at least two places at once and too late to have been caused by a government tank toppling a kerosene lamp. Working the same grisly ground, other experts said 72 people died that day, 14 fewer than suggested by figures Koresh provided before the fire. Autopsies performed so far were reported to reveal that bullets...