Word: righting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...called] Efrat, but I was too scared to go. The roads aren't safe anymore. Especially the tunnel road that you take to Efrat. There are two tunnels. If the Palestinians cut you off between the tunnels, it's like a siege. There's nowhere to go. Bethlehem is right nearby, and you could get lynched...
...childhood friend. My friend said she considered canceling the bat mitzvah because of all the rioting but decided that she would be giving them--the Arabs--a victory. I sat at a table with two friends. The first lives in Givon, past Ramot on the edge of Jerusalem, right near Ramallah. She said that after the lynching, she took her three children and moved in with her mother. She took everything that was valuable to her--photographs and jewelry--because she was afraid the house might get ransacked. It struck me that where she lives is not a stereotypical religious...
...PlayStation2 is being launched into the most competitive gaming environment ever. Sony is locked in a high-stakes platform war with Microsoft, Sega and Nintendo to lay claim to electronic outposts in living rooms worldwide. Right now the fight is over who will cater to the virtual sniper-attack and dune-buggy needs of legions of young gamers. But before long, these companies are betting, game consoles like PlayStation2 will become broad-ranging digital home entertainment centers used by everyone for everything from music playing to video watching. Still, the corporate battle for digital dominance in the years ahead will...
...bungled realignment of Xerox's vaunted sales organization--once the gold standard for corporate America--only worsened the firm's bad situation. Like most traditional sales forces, Xerox's was organized geographically, right down to the street level. But Xerox decided it needed the majority of its 15,000 U.S. direct-sales reps to focus on specific industries, such as banking, graphic arts or the public sector, rather than geographic regions...
...With the right conjunction of happenstance, fortune and, perhaps, the stars, TIME can react to the week's news around the world with as many as 11 different covers. We have the capacity to tailor each regional edition to the needs of its readers. Fortunately, such thoroughgoing multifacetedness is rarely called upon. Nevertheless, the U.S., European, Asian, Australian, Canadian and Latin American editions often have different cover stories each week. And all of them create much of their own content...