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Last night we visited friends in Elazar [a moderate settlement near Jerusalem in the West Bank]. I asked my husband to call first and make sure the roads were open and it was safe to drive there. The friend in Elazar said it was, but this morning we heard on the news that a woman driving that road got stoned and was in the hospital. It's not clear if she will live. This morning, I wanted to visit friends in [another settlement called] Efrat, but I was too scared to go. The roads aren't safe anymore. Especially...
...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 settlement. Givon is basically secular and affluent...
...meantime, a pride of diplomats, crossing paths and wires in a dark version of a play with no plot, suspended their disjointed efforts for a grand Middle East settlement and settled, instead, for a hastily arranged meeting to stanch the bloodshed. Buried in the rubble was not just the peace process, it was also our dreamy view of what the world was becoming. Confronted again with pictures of flag-draped coffins and mutilated bodies, with the sounds of random gunfire and angry chants, the world had to readjust to the fact that not every problem is solvable, that the global...
...largest issuer, said it would settle a class action accusing two Citi-owned banks of declaring many payments late and assessing late charges even if they were received on the due date. The bank pleaded innocent, but to avoid litigation, it is shelling out a $45 million settlement, $18 million of which will go to cardholders who file claims...
...Virginia, just what he was doing for those two terms, and first he says, "There's a lot of different ways to look at legislative success." Then he counts the ways: putting through $220 million for ship maintenance and construction, raising military pay and brokering a large civil-rights settlement for black farmers who claimed the Agriculture Department had refused them loans and other supports. But even Robb ends up characterizing the list as "a lot of little things like that...