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...Once this process gets going - if it gets going - Arafat is supposed to get confidence-building measures from the Israelis, such as the lifting of the closure on Palestinian areas, a settlement freeze and so on. And under the present cease-fire terms, he'd get some of these things without having to sign a final deal ending the conflict. So that will help him sell a policy shift if he chooses to make one. But the real question is how far he's prepared to go in confronting Hamas and Islamic Jihad, who have no interest either in restoring...
Trading wasn't always smooth after the bond market reopened Thursday. A communications breakdown with the Bank of New York, one of the main banks that process Treasury-bond trades, at one point delayed settlement of transactions worth at least $400 billion. By Friday, the bank insisted that "virtually all" problems had been solved, though a government official disputes that. At week's end the yield on the 10-year T-bond, which many mortgage rates are based on, stood at 4.55%, nearly a percentage point lower than it was four months...
...that was a scathing denunciation of the freak he felt Michael had become. And the controversial LaToya Jackson made numerous unsubstantiated claims that the King had in fact been guilty of child molestation. The criminal case was eventually dismissed and Jackson vindicated, though many took his out-of-court settlement in the civil case as an admission of guilt...
...curious timing. The putative explanation for the government's thinking is that, with the case due for an in-court status hearing this week, Justice wanted to give Microsoft an idea of what would be on and off the table. But after that hearing, the case is headed into settlement talks, and it's Negotiation 101 to hold onto all your bargaining chips until you get to the table. Why abandon, in exchange for nothing at all, the one scenario Microsoft fears the most...
...provision for partners who have not established the legal link of marriage. (The couple's daughter, Georgia, born three months after Tinnion died, receives benefits automatically.) ? Last month, after the case stirred fierce public debate over the rights of unmarried partners, the MoD announced it would discuss a settlement with Homsi. She would not get the war widow's pension, says an MoD spokesman, but rather an "ex-gratia payment recognizing that in her case there are exceptional circumstances." Homsi's solicitor, Tom Reah, says that his client is still waiting to hear what the MoD might offer but notes...