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Wednesday, Apr 10, 2002

put it on my card

"Nearly a million tenants can use their cards to pay their rent, thanks to an arrangement between Visa and the biggest U.S. property manager, Chicago-based Apartment Investment and Management Co. Visa touts the service as convenient for renters and landlords."

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war and fuzzy

"The soldiers then hauled men out of the captured homes, beat them, bound their hands and blindfolded them, stripped them to their underwear, and shipped them off to an Israeli military base for questioning, said the metal worker, who was detained for 24 hours. "They beat my brother - 100 times they hit him with their batons, on his shoulders, his stomach and his back," he said.

They met fierce resistance every step of the way from the Palestinian gunmen hunkering down in narrow alleys, and from the master bomb-makers in the camp, who rigged up an elaborate system of tripwires all over the camp, with exploding houses, skips, sewage covers, and even trees. They also handed out belts of explosives to would-be suicide bombers - Israel's chief of staff, Shaul Mofaz, said this week that five Palestinians, including a woman, had blown themselves up while pretending to surrender to the Israeli forces."

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clintonomics

"Not so long ago, Clinton Street on the Lower East Side was a grim, grafitti-ridden streetscape. By night, bags of heroin were sold by brand name, while prostitutes peddled their wares nearby. Things looked even worse, if possible, under daylight, which shone on Clinton Street like fluorescent lights on a hangover."

Tuesday, Apr 09, 2002

land rover

"This is the Age of Maps. Forget for a moment those 15th-century creations, with their romanticized sea monsters and crudely conceived land masses. More than 99 percent of all maps � ever � were made in the past century. Keep a sharp eye, and maps will start popping up on such things as cereal boxes, bus stops, emergency exits, and license plates."

blue jeans

"Levi Strauss & Co., the 149-year-old manufacturer of blue jeans, yesterday virtually abandoned its decades-long effort to keep an American icon from becoming just one more foreign import."

Monday, Apr 08, 2002

kabul spite

"KABUL, Afghanistan, April 7 � Victims of the bombing in Afghanistan handed in petitions from 400 families to the American Embassy here today, part of a growing movement to demand compensation from the United States for the loss of their families and homes."

the fixer

"In substance, "Sharon has not changed his position. What he is offering at the end of this is his original proposal of an interim peace agreement," Benn concludes. "In any case, he is not prepared to give Arafat any chance whatsoever. His characterizations of Arafat were unusually harsh in the Knesset speech."

american star power

"The debate that is missing in the US is not one between Americans who want Israel to survive and those-a marginal minority-who want Israel to be destroyed. The US should support Israel's right to exist within internationally-recognised borders and to defend itself against threats. What is needed is a debate between those who want to link US support for Israel to Israeli behaviour, in the light of America's own strategic goals and moral ideals, and those who want there to be no linkage. For the American Israel lobby, Tony Smith observes in his authoritative study, Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign Policy (Harvard), "to be a 'friend of Israel' or 'pro-Israel' apparently means something quite simple: that Israel alone should decide the terms of its relations with its Arab neighbours and that the US should endorse these terms, whatever they may be."

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