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...while the soldier must keep his cool and see before him his values as a human being and as a soldier. Happily, thanks to the precise preparations and instructions for restraint during the events, not one Palestinian youth who was throwing stones has been killed in the sector...
...travel to Kiryat Arba, the largest [Jewish] city in my sector, to speak with new immigrants from Russia. The audience is made up of people who came to our country and found themselves in a reality that is strange to them. To dispel the tension, I open with a discussion about Tolstoy's War and Peace, which describes the war of the Russian people against the invading Napoleon. Here in our small country we do not have the wide spaces that would allow a retreat from Moscow. The tension is broken, the audience listens to what I say, which...
...midnight there is a call for all the brigade commanders in the sector. During the conversation the commander tells us details of the cease-fire agreement. In the middle of the conversation, I receive reports of gunfire toward the Jewish community in Hebron. It looks as if, for the moment, the agreement does not apply to Hebron. At 2 a.m. the gunfire ceases. It is time to give final orders...
...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...
...midday Thursday, the sellers weren't done yet. Juniper Networks, one of the high-flying bellwethers of the sector (which has lately been a sometime bellwether for the rest of NASDAQ), dipped below $200 during Wednesday's bloodbath and kept on going, hitting $170 at noon Thursday. Corning (more than oven-safe dishes, folks!) is below $70 and off more than 30 percent on the week. Cisco is back down in the very low fifties...