Word: problems
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...though Palestinians on the street scream abuse against Sharon, their leaders know he's not their problem--yet. At a recent meeting with European visitors in Gaza, aides say Arafat mockingly proclaimed himself unfazed by the prospect of Sharon's sitting across the negotiating table: "Sharon frightens Barak a lot more than he frightens me." Sharon, Arafat says, could deliver what little he promises, unlike Barak, who in the eyes of many Palestinians seems to overreach at times...
...assumed that it was impossible to get a truly accurate image of an organ in constant motion. But with improvement in the technology for snapping freeze-frames of the beating heart, physicians have started to rely more and more on images of the heart not just for looking at problem areas but also for predicting the likelihood of future heart trouble...
...tainted the entire department," says Richard Drooyan, former chief assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and head of a 190-member commission that released a highly critical report on the L.A.P.D. last Thursday. Drooyan's report, ordered by the city's board of police commissioners, found a "fundamental problem of supervision and leadership" in the department. These problems were acute in specialized units like the Rampart anti-gang CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) unit, which "developed an independent subculture that embodied a 'war on gangs' mentality where the ends justified the means...
ELTON JOHN would just as soon ignore "men in suits," his lawyer told Britain's high court. That may explain how he never noticed until recently that $14 million of his had gone missing. He is suing some of the besuited men--his accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers. The teensy problem with lawsuits about money is that they throw open one's spending habits to the prying eyes of the less pecuniarily blessed. And John had some habits. When the accounting firm's lawyer Mark Hapgood asked him in court if he really spent $57 million in less than two years, he responded...
...flash (they start playing instantly) and queue up new tunes even as the old ones are playing. The Nomad would be perfect for a long road trip with your co-pilot playing deejay--except, of course, for that pesky four-hour battery life. (Remote Solutions solves that problem by shipping its jukebox with a car-outlet adapter...