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Harvard is not alone in lamenting a slow start. The two- time defending Ivy League champion Big Green is 0-4 in non-conference play, and is doubtlessly thankful, like the Crimson, that its poor play has come so early in the year...
...Judge Clark had had enough for the night. Closing statements will start at 1 p.m. Wednesday (Barry Richard asked for the delay - he's got a date with the Florida Supremes in the morning). A one-day trial has become two, and Al Gore will find out perhaps Thursday how badly he needs the Florida high court to help him with its ruling, probably due Friday...
...bear to listen to lawyers droning for so long? The campaign itself went on for two years more than it should have, and the pettifogging afterblather is more than decent citizens should be asked to endure. I have pulled the covers over my head. In the month since the election, I have reread "War and Peace," interminable and still the greatest novel. No one ever described the fog of battle better than Tolstoy. I have lately been comforting myself with the Book of Proverbs, which I carry around in a pocket edition from Grove Press and dip into whenever...
Palestinian prosperity promotes peace; Palestinian poverty nurtures war. That logic was one of the foundations of the Oslo peace process, which is why one of its key authors on Tuesday raised the alarm over the state of the Palestinian economy after more than two months of the new intifada. And the World Bank, which seldom acts without a nod from the U.S., on Wednesday made an unprecedented donation of $12 million to the beleaguered Palestinian Authority for immediate job-creation programs...
...more than one fifth of the Palestinian work force who've been unable to reach their jobs in the Jewish state - and warned that the precipitous decline of the Palestinian economy was planting the seeds of a regional war. The Israeli blockade has quadrupled Palestinian unemployment, and the two months of the uprising have seen income losses to Palestinians totaling more than $500 million dollars. Indeed, the World Bank's $12 million donation is primarily a gesture to alert the international community to the problem - after all, the Palestinian economy's losses as a result of the uprising are estimated...