Word: processing
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...Arafat may have boosted his domestic support by standing firm on Jerusalem, but support on the Palestinian street doesn't make the choices he now faces any easier. Arafat had invested everything in the peace process, and has the most to lose by its failure - his vow to declare a state without Israeli agreement come September could potentially plunge the region into a new round of instability, which neither Arafat nor any of his backers will relish...
...coordinator of the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq resigned in protest against continuing sanctions. "We are in the process of destroying an entire society," warned Irishman Denis Halliday. "It's as simple and terrifying as that.... Five thousand children are dying every month...
...Street dismissed the $145 billion setback as if it were a parking ticket. Tobacco stocks were off marginally, indicating that investors had already priced the decision into the shares. And industry analysts remain bullish. "The scale of the verdict speaks to the unconstitutionality and the absurdity of the whole process," says David Adelman of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter...
...someone so central to the process, Ross could not be more self-effacing. Of the three primary U.S. negotiators of the post-cold war era--the other two are George Mitchell, who helped midwife the Northern Irish peace, and Richard Holbrooke, the brash, Balkan knucklebuster and current U.N. Ambassador--Ross is far and away the most modest. While Holbrooke is known for his deft use of sycophancy and insinuation--key tools of diplomacy when used properly--Ross uses a different method. "Dennis makes up for that lack of flattery and manipulation through trust and discretion," says a former confidant...
Yahweh, God and Allah are ostensibly one and the same deity, but the mutually exclusive interpretations that divide his worshipers into Jews, Christians and Muslims have tended to negate one another - a process mirrored in Jerusalem's architecture, where all-important shrines are built atop the ruins of other all-important shrines, fueling one of the most fraught territorial disputes in human history. Atop the ruins of the Jews' Great Temple, which according to Jewish prophecy must be rebuilt to welcome the Messiah, stands the Al Aqsa mosque, the site of the Prophet Mohammed's ascension to heaven...