In January 2002, after a period of quiet ushered in by Yasser Arafat’s mid-December unilateral ceasefire, Madani found himself tested anew by a crime that became a symbol of the city’s worsening anarchy and the hatreds unleashed by the intifada. The victim was an American-born Israeli who lived in Jerusalem, worked in Bethlehem, and for the first fourteen months of the intifada had managed, despite the violence, to move easily between worlds....

Starr’s passion was understandable. He is on the eve of the most important event in his investigation so far: the six- to eight-week trial of the Clintons’ old friends, a drama that will be a running narrative of Arkan-sas shenanigans. For the Clintons, the bad Whitewater news keeps coming. Last week the president was subpoenaed to testify in the McDougal case. And the mystery of Mrs. Clinton’s long-sought billing records on Madison – now a crucial element in Starr’s inquiry – deepened when her former law partner, Webster Hubbell, told Congress that he last saw the records in the hands of Vince Foster, the White House deputy counsel who killed himself in July 1993....

The five-member Norwegian panel instead announced on Friday that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had won the award, “for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and for in particular his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea,” a statement said. Thunberg has become the figurehead of the youth climate movement after skipping school to protest outside the Swedish Parliament in August 2018, inspiring the waves of student strikes that followed....

So far, the only person who claims to know the facts is Spence, who works for a state-funded AIDS program covering nine counties in northeast Texas. She says that the students were tested individually at their own request, and subsequently contacted her for counseling. No one else-not even their parents-has been told who they are. But in December, Spence alerted the Johntown school board that six of 197 students were infected at Rivercrest High....

Administration sources say, however, there will be one big change in tactics: this time around, they intend to seize control of the rhetorical debate and keep the Republicans from doing to health care what they did to Clinton’s ill-fated economic-stimulus plan. White House sources say Congress will likely get the blueprint in September. Step two, they say, could follow quite quickly. But some sources caution that the plan is so exhaustive it may not be released until January 1994, to coincide with the State of the Union address....

Kaczynski’s lawyers tried to get all the evidence found in his cabin thrown out on the ground that agents had searched it illegally. But the judge refused. Early on, says a source close to the defense, the lawyers had ruled out an insanity defense–that Kaczynski was incapable of understanding his actions. As the evidence mounted–his writings were lucid, his plans methodical–it became clear to his lawyers that no jury would believe he was out of his mind....

As a foreign observer, I can only admire how democracy prevailed, two weeks after the riots at the Capitol. It is both an inspiration and a hope. Yet the challenges we face are daunting: a deadly pandemic, an economic crisis and the need to reunify our societies and acknowledge that what brings us closer is stronger than what pulls us apart. But what is somewhat new now is international cooperation....

Still, the intersection of guests at the July 4 party at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said a lot about the cross-section of Iraqi politics. U.S. soldiers, Muslim clerics and sheikhs rubbed shoulders over their finger food. American embassy staff buzzed around their Iraqi government contacts. There were Shiites and Kurds, diplomats and troops from Australi, Britain, Poland and elsewhere, but few Sunni Arab Iraqis–who are currently boycotting most of their minority posts in the government....

Working off tips from associates of the men–combined with surveillance videos from Wal-Mart, where the two allegedly set fires–police narrowed in on the suspects early last week. For four days, law enforcement kept Dieteman, 30, and Hausner, 33, under round-the-clock surveillance at the Mesa, Ariz., apartment complex where they are roommates while other investigative teams gathered further evidence. By late Thursday, investigators had enough on the men to move in, but there was a hitch: Hausner’s 2-year-old daughter was visiting her dad, who shares custody with his soon-to-be ex-wife....

Carl Valeri’s rash tackle on City’s Michael Jakobsen inside the first 20 second sparked pushing and shoving between the sides and referee Peter Green had brandished three yellow cards by the 12th minute. Rhys Williams became the third Victory player into the book for a scissoring challenge in the 32nd minute that forced Osama Malik to limp off with a hip problem. Replacement Marcin Budzinski made a swift impact by clattering his maiden City goal into the roof of the net in first-half stoppage time....

Hobley was not the only one to be spared from lethal injection. Gov. George Ryan pardoned three other condemned men and then, a day later, dramatically cleared death row in Illinois–commuting the death sentences of 167 inmates to life without parole. It was a stunning move by the departing governor, hailed by foes of capital punishment as courageous, but condemned as unjust by many victims’ families and outraged prosecutors....

Your Leo guy will have no problem hugging in public, picking you up and spinning you around, or making out. He wants people to see that he loves being with you. For instance, he may say, “You are the smartest person I know. I’m so impressed that you completed that class,” or, “Has anyone told you how generous you are? You made your friend’s day when you told them you’d help with their project....

Traditionally, a DVD is written by using a lens to focus laser light. The thinner the beam, the more information the laser can etch on the disc. For years, scientists have manipulated the lens to narrow the beam, reaching a minimum of 405 billionths of a meter. The Harvard team takes a new path that does not use a lens. Instead, they place two tiny gold rods on the end of the laser, creating an antennalike device....

An Important Book that you admit you haven’t read: I have never been able to finish any book by Don DeLillo. A classic that, on rereading, disappointed: The Bible, by God. Starts great; gets bogged down with religious stuff. Terrific ending, though.

The virtue of this proposal (scheduled for Senate debate this week) is its modesty. There’s nothing wrong with constructive tinkering. We’ve had enough of grand reforms, which promise much and deliver little. They will never create our ideal health-care system: one that provides all the care people want without huge costs or intrusive controls, from either government or business. That system is impossible; too many of its goals collide....

Megalodons are prehistoric predatory fish that are believed to be big enough to eat a whale, according to reports. Newsweek reported the megalodon’s mouth opened to 11 feet wide and was lined with as many as 276 teeth. That makes megalodon fossil discoveries somewhat common, as the prehistoric predators lost a set of teeth every fortnight, equaling 40,000 teeth in its lifetime. Although Megalodon teeth are frequently discovered, a full megalodon jaw has never been discovered....

DiCaprio, now 18, didn’t get serious about acting until he was 14 (“I was too involved with being a kid”). He played a homeless boy on TV’s “Growing Pains” and a lead role in the movie “Critters 3,” which he’d rather not discuss. He read for " Boy’s Life" seven times, but once cast, DiCaprio says, he felt “an immediate connection” with director Michael Caton-Jones. “He has this amazing ability to convey quite complex emotions,” says Caton-Jones....

John McCain is the reason I joined the Marine Corps after surviving the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11. When the first plane hit the North Tower I was working as an investment adviser for Morgan Stanley in the South Tower. I ran down 61 flights of stairs. I was halfway down when the second plane hit—and then I ran west, dodging burning debris and body parts, toward the Hudson River....

While inflation and the economy dominated voter concerns, and despite running against a historically unpopular Democratic president, Republicans greatly underperformed expectations. The message that Republicans should take away from the midterms was well-articulated by The Wall Street Journal editorial board: “Americans are unhappy with Democratic governance, but they aren’t sold on the GOP as an alternative. What can the GOP do to begin to regain the trust of the American center?...