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...their vote of approval: more than 3.1 million Indians own shares in Reliance companies, which have a combined market capitalization of more than $20 billion. Yet it has taken just one extraordinary week?during which a long-simmering battle for control of the conglomerate burst into the open?to strip Reliance of the sheen of invincibility it acquired over four decades...
...page by an artist known as "C.F." appears on a piece of torn-out spiral notepaper, complete with the rough fringe on the left edge. Souther Salazar's "Fervler 'n Razzle," features the antics of a pair of doodles on whatever surface the artist seems to have around. One strip puts them on a drinking straw wrapper. Reproducing these works as-is makes them seem almost sculptural, adding a thrilling third dimension to the traditionally flat comix surface...
...negotiated with his enemies only so that he could later conquer them. Arafat's Israeli critics believe he never gave up on the Palestine Liberation Organization's "phased plan" of taking lands bit by bit from Israel with the aim of eventually seizing control of not only the Gaza Strip and the West Bank but Israel as well...
...Arafat's abandonment of the peace process. At the beginning, he was the lead cheerleader for Oslo among the Palestinians. They were never enthusiastic about the accords because they fell far short of the minimum condition most of them required: a sovereign state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. That was plainly the bait Oslo offered, but it was not guaranteed. First the Palestinians would have to submit to a test, a period of autonomy. Arafat, aging and struggling for relevance in the early 1990s, was desperate for a toehold on the future. During a heated meeting with reluctant...
...became clear in time, though, that Arafat failed to understand how weak a deal he had made. In an interview with TIME after the first Oslo agreement, he boasted that Palestinian "independence" would soon begin in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho. When a reporter noted that the agreement provided for limited self-rule, not sovereignty, Arafat shot back, "Who told you that? It has to be under my control. I know what I have signed." Associates confirmed later that Arafat had not actually read the document...