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...Jerusalem, he ceases to see himself as a politician. Instead he envisions himself emblazoned across the pages of history with the only two Islamic leaders to stride victorious into Jerusalem, securing the holy city for the Muslim faithful. Caliph Omar bin Khattab won the city for Islam in the seventh century. Saladin liberated it from Christian Crusaders 550 years later. The Palestinian leader can compromise on refugees, on territory, even on the parameters of statehood. But Arafat sees Jerusalem as his chance to transcend politics and enter the pantheon of great Islamic heroes, a coup that could wipe away...
...concluded a remarking season for Taylor. In the indoor season, she captained Harvard to its first Indoor Heps title since 1990, while winning three individual titles. In the outdoor season, she won two individual Outdoor Heps titles, an individual ECAC title, and earned All-American status with a seventh-place finish at NCAAs. Over the course of the year, Taylor broke over half a dozen school records...
...Harvard Corporation, the University's oldest and most powerful governing board, has always dominated the search for the president. As it has whenever a president of the University resigns, the Harvard Corporation will appoint six of its seven members to the committee to search for a successor. The seventh member, the outgoing president, is the only member of the Corporation that does not serve on the search committee...
...Physical Training Remedial Program when I went through basic training at Fort Jackson for nine weeks last fall. It was (to us) the dark and hopeless purgatory for the chubby, lazy or just physically confounded who couldn't pass their PT test the first, second, third or seventh time. People went there and disappeared from view, but they rarely went home. The Army, strapped for recruits in the economic boom times, wasn't about to lose anybody just because they couldn't hack it right away; they were willing to wait as long as it took...
...bodyguard. That's how much the medical profession hated the "ambulance chasers" who were driving up their malpractice premiums. On this visit, however, Scruggs was introduced so gushingly that even he was embarrassed. "You forgot to mention," he chided the society's head, "that I rested on the seventh...