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Both sides are confident of swift victory if battles do occur...

Author: By Eli. M. Alper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: War Looms as Adams, Pforzheimer Clash | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

...midfield will be lead by junior Maisa Badawy. Badawy has a goal and five assists so far this season, already surpassing her total from last season. Her stellar play has been pivotal to the Crimson's swift transition game...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Looks to Stay Perfect in Ivy, Takes on Cornell | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

...East peace and the sentiments of ordinary Jordanians, Hamas too has no interest in a confrontation with Jordan. The last time Palestinian exiles and their descendants, who now make up a majority of the Jordanian population, challenged the Hashemite throne ? in the "Black September" of 1970 ? the response was swift and brutal, leaving thousands of Palestinians dead and the PLO in exile. "Hamas will maintain that its struggle is with Israel and it has no quarrel with any Arab state," says Hamad. So while the latest clampdown signals an end to friendly relations between Jordan and Hamas, it?s unlikely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jordan Juggles Islamic Radicals and Israel Peace | 9/22/1999 | See Source »

...organization of neo-Nazi white supremacists founded in the mid-1970s by former aeronautical engineer Richard Butler near Hayden Lake, Idaho. Butler based the group on the religious doctrine of Christian Identity, established in Los Angeles in the late 1940s by an anti-Semitic rabble rouser named Wesley Swift. Christian Identity holds that white Aryans are the authentic lost tribes of Israel, the true descendants of Adam and Eve. Jews of the modern world, on the other hand, are impostors--the spawn of Satan's union with Eve. Thus Jews, in the words of Swift, "must be destroyed." All other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kids Got In The Way | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...when every Albanian house was burned. But the Serbs came a third time, just two weeks ago, in a focused fury to obliterate the whole of Ljesane. In the yard of their shattered house last week lay Rukije's body; her skull was crushed, and maggots had made swift work of her body, leaving only bones, rags and hair. The brown, rotting corpse of Haxhi lay nearby in the garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crimes Of War | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

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