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THE DISTASTE FOR ISRAEL EVIDENT in coverage of the current crisis is a mystery to me. I'm not talking about the Arabs, who have their own obvious reasons for hating Israel, not the least being that Israel is a living reproach to Islamic civilization's inability to adapt to the modern world. The weakness of Islam vis-à-vis a West it once terrified and dominated is exposed daily by the strength and confidence and prosperity of a tiny nation dwarfed by the population and resources and armies of its adversaries. I'm speaking rather about Israel's critics in Europe and the United States,...

June 22, 2002Saturday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial St. Paulinus of Nola, Bishop Psalm: Saturday Week 28 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading I2 Chr 24:17-25 After the death of Jehoiada,the princes of Judah came and paid homage to King Joash,and the king then listened to them.They forsook the temple of the Lord, the God of their fathers,and began to serve the sacred poles and the idols;and because of this crime of theirs,wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem.Although prophets were sent to them to convert them to the Lord,the people would not listen to their warnings.Then...

Amendment-cost law goes to court Lawsuit says certain proposals treated unfairly By David Twiddy DEMOCRAT CAPITOL BUREAU Supporters of two proposed constitutional amendments have filed suit challenging a new state law that requires state economists to affix an estimated cost to their amendments. The Coalition to Reduce Class Size and Parents for Readiness Education for Our Kids say the law is discriminatory because it doesn't apply to amendments that either have already gone on the November ballot or were created by the Legislature. They also complain that there's no guarantee the cost estimates will be fair and, unlike the amendments...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Trying to explain the current state of corporate earnings is like catching wisps of smoke: You close your fingers around them, but when you open your hand, nothing is there. Such is the problem the stock market has been struggling with for the past year. The last few quarters were supposed to be the most brutal for U.S. companies, but then things were expected to ease up. No doubt about it. Yet the turnaround is still not in sight and investors are waiting. The disillusionment over corporate profitability is massive. Fifty-one percent of 280 fund managers...

News Home - Yahoo! - Help Home  Top Stories  Business  Tech  Politics  World  Local   Entertainment   Sports  Op/Ed  Science  Health  Full Coverage Gossip/Celebrity - Variety     Gossip/Celebrity | PageSix.com Gossip/Celeb | AP Gossip/Celebrity | Reuters/Variety | E! Online Gossip/Celeb Archerd: Stone to Israel -- leave the West BankWed Jun 19,11:02 PM ETBy Army Archerd, Daily Variety Senior Columnist HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - With yet another suicide bombing in Jerusalem Wednesday night -- the second in that city in two days -- I thought it was time to talk to Oliver Stone about his documentary on Yasser Arafat ( news - web sites)....

Making the rounds at Democratic fundraisers, former President Clinton has begun to articluate a way for the loyal opposition to attack the popular President Bush in the fall elections.It boils down to this: Terrorists win if they shake up Washington so much that the administration diverts money needed for critical domestic programs to the war.And guess what? Clinton said Bush was doing just that.If it sounds familiar, it is.Clinton made the same charges in 1992 when he beat former President Bush, claiming that the then President was too much of a foreign policy leader and a zero at home.He laid...

Virtually all the remaining white farmers in Zimbabwe, who have been asked to surrender their land to President Robert Mugabe's government on Monday, have vowed to defy orders to stop farming and vacate their properties, saying they have nowhere else to go. At least 2,900 white farmers have been ordered to close shop and surrender their farms in line with recent changes to land acquisition laws which gave the Zimbabwe government sweeping powers to seize land for black resettlement. But Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) spokeswoman Jenni Williams said the spirit of resistance had never been stronger among the farmers who...

From the issue dated June 14, 2002 http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i40/40a01701.htm Younger (and Older) Than the New Left A scholar looks for the roots of '60s radicalism in the liberal tradition By SCOTT McLEMEE The expression "generation gap" entered the cultural lexicon in the 1960s. And, fittingly enough, veterans of that decade's activism who became professors soon faced students too young to remember its politics and culture. Working on the intellectual roots of the New Left, Kevin Mattson, an associate professor of history at Ohio University at Athens, has had to navigate that gap from a different angle. After all, when Students for...

'The Faith Will Survive' The institutional church, on the other hand, is in serious trouble. Here's why. by Joan Chittister The question everywhere is the same these days: What, in the long run, will be the effect of the pedophilia scandal on the Catholic Church? Speculation ranges from predictions of total collapse to speculation about total reconfiguration. Given the long lessons of history, neither hypothesis is likely, perhaps, but we may have already been given a mirror into the future of change. Let me tell you what I've seen already. It was 1996. I was in Dublin at the time...

Bush continues Clinton agenda Posted: June 22, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Referring to President G. W. Bush's new Department of Homeland Security, former President Bill Clinton told a gathering of Council on Foreign Relations members last week, "We have been building this for a long time." For once, Clinton told the truth. What he began constructing following the Oklahoma City bombing, Bush has succeeded in bringing to fruition. America is about to have its very own Gestapo. If Al Gore were president today, Republicans in Congress would no doubt rise in righteous indignation to quickly kill such...

The recent upsurge in acts of violence against my Jewish countrymen is a matter of great concern in France. The French authorities and people as a whole share the shock and distress of our Jewish community. Anti-Semitic acts in France have caused understandable emotion in the United States as well, but they have also elicited some offensive, even outrageous, remarks. A well-known columnist recently wrote in The Post, "Holocaust shame kept the demon corked. . . . But now the atonement is passed. The genie is out again" [April 26]. Another asserted: "This crisis has become the second -- and...

Amid student portraits and memorable moments is a deeper look at student life: parenthood. PINELLAS PARK -- The yearbook at Pinellas Park High School features snapshots of hallway break dancing, a portrait of the girls softball team, candid moments in chemistry class. And then starting on page 12, there is this: "I just can't believe that I'm having a baby." The four-page spread on teen pregnancy features a stark black and white photo reproduction of a sonogram of a pregnant student's fetus in utero. A two-page article has interviews with five pregnant Pinellas Park students. To some parents and students,...

<p>Company denies it showed others how to 'game' energy market. New memo surfaces in scandal.</p> <p>SACRAMENTO – Perot Systems adamantly defended itself Friday against allegations that it showed others how to "game" California's energy market, even as another memo surfaced that outlined Perot's options to help Southern California Edison manipulate the market and complimented two Perot employees for their "devious" minds.</p>

<p>June 22, 2002 -- Music legend Charlie Daniels dropped out of a Fourth of July TV special on public television after organizers refused to let him perform a song paying tribute to the victims of Sept. 11.</p> <p>At issue is a tune called "The Last Fallen Hero," which Daniels, 65, has been performing in concerts since he wrote it last winter.</p>

The Israeli military was preparing a "crushing and decisive" response to recent Palestinian attacks, and it could include an extended stay by Israeli troops in Palestinian areas, a senior defense official said Saturday. Israeli troops have poured into several Palestinian towns and cities in recent days, and as of Saturday night, remained in five places in the West Bank where strict curfews were in force. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government has endorsed a plan to gradually reoccupy Palestinian land until suicide bombings and shootings stop. The plan for stepped up military action came after a bloody week that left 33...

Printed from http://www.thenation.com© 2002 The Nation Company, L.P.Back to Web View FEATURE STORY | July 1, 2002 Fighting the Gay Right by RICHARD GOLDSTEIN The precipitous rise and fall of Pim Fortuyn, the Dutch politician who was assassinated in May, sent a shock wave through the European left in several respects. Not only did it signal the emergence of yet another popular right-wing figure, in the world's most liberal democracy, no less; it also presented the novel image of a gay man running on an anti-immigrant platform. It's always been assumed that any homosexual who hoped to rise on...

Arab-American dollars shore up McKinney By MELANIE EVERSLEYAtlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer Kenneth Lambert / AP Rep. Cynthia McKinney has a deep relationship with Arab-Americans. WASHINGTON -- The relationship that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) shares with Arab-Americans runs deeper than her call for more attention to the Palestinian side of the Middle Eastern conflict. The DeKalb County congresswoman's connections stretch significantly into the pockets and purses of the Arab-American and Muslim communities. About one-fourth of the individuals who have contributed to McKinney's campaigns over the past five years have names that appear to be Arab-American or Muslim, according to an...

<p>There's an unfinished hull at Northrop Grumman's shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. Nearby are portions of a second hull that didn't quite come together.</p> <p>American Classic Voyages, a company that was ordained by federal loan guarantees to ramrod the rebirth of cruise-ship construction in the United States, went bankrupt in October. Taxpayers are on the hook for $187 million and, yes, are now in possession of these unseaworthy hulks.</p>

Socialism = NAZI or... Hitler was a socialist. The nasty little secret they don't want you to know! THE OMINOUS PARALLELS, by Leonard Peikoff... A Veritas News Service Book Review - "A magnificent work... it should be required reading for all Americans. This book reveals socialisms nasty little secret." William Cooper Excerpt from Chapter One. The Nazis were not a tribe of prehistoric savages. Their crimes were the official, legal acts and policies of modern Germany -- an educated, industrialized, CIVILIZED Western European nation, a nation renowned throughout the world for the luster of its intellectual and cultural achievements. By...

  Rethinking Dual Citizenship in the Post-Sept. 11 WorldBy JONATHAN TILOVEc.2002 Newhouse News Service Beys Afroyim was a radical modernist painter. Shawn Pine is an expert in military intelligence. What they have in common, aside from being Jewish, is that both were dual citizens of the United States and Israel who, in turn, defined the possibilities and limits of dual citizenship in America. Afroyim was the petitioner in the landmark 1967 Supreme Court case that opened the door to millions of Americans now holding citizenships in any of nearly 100 other nations across the globe that permit it. But...