Yasser Arafat is all but dead with only the time of death and place of burial to be determined. Conflicting reports over the Palestinian president's health have hugged headlines for days. Arafat's health was described initially two weeks ago as the flu, it then became a stomach ailment, and as he was being flown on October 29 to the Percy military training hospital in Paris there was the suggestion of a virus. Then it came down to a blood disorder and possibly leukemia, which was later ruled out. He was then described as being in a coma, firstly an irreversible...