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...area of the Gaza Strip patrolled by Dagan's troops, 10 Israelis have died in the past two weeks in terrorist shootings and bombings. In the same period, Dagan's troops have shot 10 Palestinians as they tried to break into Jewish settlements. Israel blames Arafat's top men, particularly Preventive Security chief Mohammed Dahlan. Dahlan's job is supposed to be suppressing Palestinian violence before it can threaten Arafat or Israel. In fact, Israelis charge, he is orchestrating the fighting. Last week one of Dahlan's men, still carrying his Israeli-issued ID card, crawled into the Kfar Darom...
...that there will be fewer sightings of Schrempp at the St. Regis. Although he is being criticized in Germany for Chrysler's woes and his risky Mitsubishi investment, he is undaunted. "I am not going to let the right strategy get derailed by faulty execution," he told TIME last week. But he is learning, as they say in Detroit, to walk the talk. For example, just days after he heard about the October plant closings and the $512 million loss, the chairman made the mistake of telling the Financial Times that the notion of a merger of equals had always...
...game. The Red Sox are presently engaged in a bidding war for free agent Mike Mussina, surely one of the 25 or 30 best pitchers in the game. Mussina will eventually be paid about $15 million per year--more than Martinez. And so sportswriters ran to Pedro last week anticipating a column's worth of Latin temper. What they got was this: Sign him; he'll help...
Female celebrities do yoga. Male celebrities paint. These are the rules; don't ask us why. They are so rigorous, however, that even relatively dormant celebs like MATTHEW MODINE must follow them, as we learned last week when several of the Full Metal Jacket star's paintings, believed to have been stolen more than a decade ago, were discovered in a New York City apartment. An N.Y.P.D. detective noticed a painting of Modine with Birdy co-star Nicolas Cage in a Chinatown apartment. After climbing a fire escape to get a closer look, he obtained a search warrant. Seven Modine...
...Next week: How to buy an alligator...