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...Israeli troops. McDonald's officials would be forgiven for feeling a little uneasy, in light of Burger King's experience in the region last year: The company was forced under threat of a boycott throughout the Islamic world to withdraw its Whoppers from a food court in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, but then found itself denounced by pro-Israel groups...
...million Record settlement in the Coca-Cola bias suit, paying an average of $40,000 to 2,000 black workers...
...under the circumstances, electotainment may not be so bad. An electoral crisis like this inevitably leads to anger and feelings of disenfranchisement. A sober, reasoned settlement, theorized on the New York Times editorial page and worked out behind closed doors, may be the quickest route to stability. Or it may leave people reasonably suspecting that they've been sold out by secretive mandarins. Say what you will about the bile-spewing cable culture of call-in shows and town halls, it's all about enfranchisement: zapping your e-mail to CNN or MSNBC, hustling down to a live camera shoot...
...What about the people who empowered him and supported his regime? The proper course of action is not simply to unhorse a single person in an act of fury but to re-create the country, to give it a democratic framework. That will not be possible without an honest settlement with officials, judges and everyone else who created and ruled in Milosevic's corrupt system. How do I know? In Poland, we went through the same ordeal 10 years ago, but once again in Poland, we have a President from the former communist regime. TOMASZ JANASZCZYK Kalisz, Poland...
Israel has for years been breaching U.N. resolution 242, which calls for the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the 1967 war and also affirms the necessity of achieving a just settlement of the refugee problem. Despite this resolution, Israel has continued to expand settlements for Israelis on occupied land while Palestinian refugees remain in camps dating back to 1967 and even 1948. Israel has also destroyed Palestinian homes in response to attacks, a method of collective punishment forbidden by the Fourth Geneva Convention...