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Israeli-Palestinian violence flared anew Friday, amid growing Arab frustration over what they see as the Bush administration's failure to restrain Ariel Sharon. Twelve Palestinians have been killed in clashes in Gaza since Thursday night, as gunmen have launched new attacks on Israeli soldiers and settlers there, and Israeli tanks invaded the Rafah refugee camp. Gaza had been relatively quiet over the past month as violence raged on the West Bank, but Palestinian leaders there may be inclined to take the initiative right now, which would stoke the regional political fires that first forced the Bush administration to intervene...
...interview with Tavis Smiley, aired on National Public Radio earlier this week, West remarked that “Larry Summers is the Ariel Sharon of American higher education.” He further expressed his concern that University President Lawrence H. Summers was “hanging out with the wrong crowd...
First of all, the comparison of Summers to the Israeli Prime Minister is manifestly inappropriate. Sharon is fighting a war; Summers’ battles concern Faculty size and grade inflation. Secondly, we wonder who West was referring to when he mentioned “the wrong crowd.” Summers is a university president who interacts with other top academics from around the world; is anyone whose political view differs from West’s a member of the “wrong crowd?...
...Sharon K. Sing ’05 makes her friends uncomfortable by casually telling disturbing stories about her youthful misbehavior. “Yeah, so there was this teacher who I made sure to kick in the nuts every day of fifth grade,” Sing recounted. “That was so fun.” Her male blockmates have started wearing protective cups...
...East mediation mission, the Bush administration has worked hard over the past week to distance the White House from Powell's mission, not-so-subtly sending out the message that the trip was the Secretary of State's own show. That didn't do much to help Powell press Sharon to end his offensive, which the Secretary of State insists is the crucial component of any cease-fire. But while shifting the onus onto Powell may help President Bush fend off domestic political pressure from a strong, bipartisan consensus in favor of the Israeli offensive, the international political bill...