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MIDDLE EAST E.U. Peace Bid European leaders sought to end the political stalemate in the Middle East by proposing a new plan providing for Palestinian legislative elections followed by recognition of a Palestinian state. The plan, unveiled by E.U. Foreign Ministers at a meeting in Spain, calls on Israel to pull back from West Bank towns and allow Palestinians to campaign for a referendum followed by council elections...
...Church to go on missions. For many Harvard students, this can mean leaving for a mission site after their first year or their 19th birthday. For Jarvis, this was not an entirely pleasant experience. After a month of training in Utah, he left in the summer of 1997 for Spain, a country notorious for anti-Mormon sentiment. Two years of knocking on doors to offer prepared lectures on the Mormon doctrine was “really difficult a lot of the time,” relates Jarvis. “I couldn’t help thinking how irritated...
...logic of punishing everyone who's ever given money to terrorists ("Let's start with Ronald Reagan," he writes) to its absurd extreme - eliminate everyone who's ever bought a tank of gas or used a light switch. Other contributions by the likes of Tom Tomorrow, Sue Coe and Spain Rodriguez give form to topics ignored by the other 9/11 books such as the curtailing of freedoms and the geo-political history of the United State's involvement in Afghanistan. Some of it may be overstated, but it feels right to have it out there...
...eyes on the English Premiership, where superstars like Thierry Henry, Robert Pires, Patrick Vieira, Emmanuel Petit, Marcel Desailly and Fabien Barthez ply their trade. They also frequently check in on Italy's Serie A, to follow the progress of David Trezeguet, Lilian Thuram and Vincent Candela. Then there's Spain's Primera Liga, which includes maestro Zinedine Zidane, Claude Makelele and Philippe Christanval. Oh. And don't forget the German Bundesliga, home of Bixente Lizarazu and Youri Djorkaeff. Les Bleus, as the French national team is commonly known, are scattered across Europe's best leagues. Keeping the first-XI regulars...
...first XI may not include a single player from a French club.) "The soccer schools in France are great, and young players are given the chance to play," says AS Roma defender and national team hopeful Jonathan Zebina. "But the best players will always want to go to Italy, Spain and England. That's where the clubs are that you've always dreamed about." Luckily for French clubs, they can depend on the footballing factory to churn out new generations of stars to replace the exports...