Word: path
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...year old church of Santa Ana in Ayacucho, Peru suffered an estimated $300,000 in damage in a 1997 fire. It has long been the cultural lynchpin of the community, which was torn by a 12-year civil war between the Peruvian government and the Shining Path rebel forces...
...Palestinian Authority. Then Arafat elevated another activist, Hussein Sheikh, to take over Barghouti's work among Fatah. And then Arafat changed tack again, publicly kissing Barghouti on the forehead late this summer. Both men claim to lead the Tanzim, both see their prominence in the violence as the path to power. Add to them the radicals of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, bent on wiping out Israel--and diminishing Arafat's authority--and the mix is impossible to control...
...great support of our Palestinian correspondent, JAMIL HAMAD, and military affairs reporter AHARON KLEIN, as well as advice from my predecessor, LISA BEYER, who is now a senior writer in New York." Still, the story is particularly sad for a correspondent in a region where historic steps on the path to peace have been taken in recent years. "I've been touched by the deep sense of disappointment--almost depression--in my Israeli and Palestinian friends," says Rees. "Their hopes, built over the past seven years, have come crashing down. The challenge is to convey the big political battle while...
...admit that cricket will have a tough path in finding acceptance in America. To rephrase Tom Hanks in "A League of Their Own," there's no scratching in cricket. There's also no gum-chewing, no spitting, no national anthem?singing by Roseanne. And unlike that soft padded globe that you call a baseball, the metal-hard leather and cork cricket ball that we use really hurts if you catch it. However, those who play in the cricket field do NOT have those namby-pamby padded gauntlets that baseball fielders use to protect their precious little fingers. I guess cricket...
...Next week, the shoals of not only more earnings reports but economic reports on inflation, labor and the GDP all await investors. The coast is not clear; the path is not known. With investors looking into a cloudy 2001 crystal ball, they're itchy and impressionable. Some days that means heart-stopping volatility; on Friday, volume remained robust and the buying was steady, pushing the NASDAQ up 64 and the Dow up 83 by closing time. But after this week, a lot of investors would still rather breathe into a paper bag than place any big bets on the direction...