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The land in question—Judea and Samaria, or the “West Bank”—is the ancient cradle of Jewish civilization. In modern times, the Jews lost this land to the Arab onslaught during the 1948 War of Independence, but liberated it from Jordanian occupation in 1967 and began to resettle. Now, 50 years later, over half a million Jews live here under Israeli protection, and it seems that the realization that Israel is going to be sovereign in Judea and Samaria/the West Bank is finally trickling down....

The Frenchman held a press conference to deliver the shock news less than a week after making history as the first coach to win three consecutive Champions League titles. A legendary midfielder for Juventus, Real Madrid and France in a glittering playing career, his reputation has blossomed even further since replacing Carlo Ancelotti at the helm of the Santiago Bernabeu side. The tributes to the icon came flooding in after his decision was made, with many Real Madrid players and fans expressing the same kind of disappointment that was evident in president Florentino Perez’s expression as he sat beside Zidane at the press conference....

A third-generation Floridian (his grandfather started the first law firm in Ft. Lauderdale), the 40-year-old Miami Herald columnist is at heart a serious man deeply angered by what developers, greedy politicians and overpopulation have done to his state. Of his childhood in Plantation, a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale, he says, “At the time I grew up, it was the westernmost fringe of civilization in south Florida, literally on the edge of the Everglades....

Meadows’ biceps popped through a T-shirt with a self-portrait and a curious phrase: “Alright, hi everybody.” He wore a white Philadelphia Eagles visor and rarely raised his voice. The 5-foot-6 coach stood out, even when he was trying to stay out of the spotlight. Yet anyone who came across Meadows could not help but say it out loud. “Who is that guy?” Barry Sutherland, the president of the Pickerington Youth Athletic Association football league, remembers asking himself that question on that first encounter....

Protests erupted all over the country in cities like New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington D.C. and Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed by a white police officer on May 29. And while some celebrities offered words of support and encouraged people to march against racial injustice in America or donated massive amounts of money to funds and organizations dedicated to bailing out protesters, others including Michael B. Jordan, Halsey, Tinashe, Kali Uchis, Fiona Apple, Kendrick Sampson, Ellen Page, John Cusack, Machine Gun Kelly, Paris Jackson, Lauren Jauregui, Emily Ratajkowski, Cody Fern, Tyler the Creator, Camila Cabello and several others flooded the streets of their home cities to show their solidarity by joining protests themselves....

A casual reader, glancing through Clark Clifford’s memoirs, might think the subject served as a high government official throughout the entire cold-war era. Clifford’s White House pass never expired, at least during the days when the Democrats still owned the executive branch. He always seemed to be on the inside, playing poker with Harry Truman on the presidential yacht, sunning with John F. Kennedy in Palm Beach, careering around the LBJ Ranch in the presidential Cadillac....

The Squad 5 agents dropped everything to pursue the Moussaoui case. When they discovered his visa had expired, they locked him up. They scoured his background, questioned his friends and roommate, and sent out requests to foreign governments for any records they might have on him. French intelligence came back with a tantalizing lead: Moussaoui was known to have “radical Islamic” beliefs and ties to followers of Osama bin Laden in Chechnya....

If they do indeed focus only on the performance, the panel will be looking at the details: the degree of difficulty of the routine, how gracefully it is executed, the compatibility of movement and music. Figure skating may be the most popular sport at the Olympics because its beauty is accessible to just about everyone. But the standards judges use to rate these performers can seem mysterious. While it may be easy to understand why they faulted Kurt Browning for his performance in the men’s competition, it is often hard for lay viewers to see why a seemingly passionless but technically perfect display earns a gold while a performance that brings the audience to its feet merits only a silver or a bronze....

I’ll spare you the tributes to your greatness. Let’s just say you’ve earned the right to play golf every day for the rest of your life. You’ve earned the right to gamble whenever you want without having to answer to anybody, except perhaps your wife. You’ve certainly earned the right to ignore people like me trying to give you advice. As you made clear–repeatedly–during your press conference, you wouldn’t lose any sleep if the entire press corps fouled out forever....

According to the Ukrainian news outlet Pravda, government press secretary Andriy Yusov claimed during a recent telethon that over 1.2 million people had called a surrender hotline run as part of the country’s project, “Hochu Zhit,” which translates to “I want to live,” or visited its corresponding website to inquire about their options. He further claimed that “the lion’s share of them are people who are in the territory of the so-called Russian Federation....

Measured against the numbers or his own promises, Bush’s economic policies look like a failure. Overall economic growth has averaged .7 percent a year during Bush’s first term in office, the worst since the 1930s. Personal income, after allowing for taxes and inflation, has grown by only 1.2 percent, another post-Depression low. Three million more Americans are out of work than in 1989. Little wonder that 80 percent of the public consistently says the nation is on the wrong track, a finding that reflects deep anxieties over America’s economic health....

And now, here’s something we hope you’ll really like! If those magic words rekindle memories of mirth in front of the Philco, then start smirking again: Moose and Squirrel, our heroes from the wittiest cartoon series ever, are finally back. After years of exile in the 7 a.m. rerun slot in Bangor, after only an occasional cult retrospective, Rocky and Bullwinkle are enjoying a renaissance. Last month, Disney’s Buena Vista Home Video released six 40-minute cassettes....

Richards, the CEO of Grassroots America, a nonprofit devoted to social-justice issues, has continued walking the halls of Congress since then, pushing members to end the war in Iraq. Cloy is due to be deployed to Iraq later this month despite his injuries, she says, and has threatened suicide if he is to be deployed again. She spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Eve Conant about her son, the politics of the war and her newfound place in the antiwar limelight....

In her compelling book Halfway Heaven (219 pages. Doubleday. $23.95), Melanie Thernstrom offers an eloquent explanation of how these two lives intersected so tragically. A Harvard graduate whose father teaches history at the university, Thernstrom is an insider who draws a disturbing portrait of an institution poorly equipped to handle the emotional problems of students from different cultures. Tadesse sought help from Harvard’s counseling center. Yet no one apparently understood her emotional fragility....

Clinton hasn’t yet signed off on the idea, but administration sources say that his top advisers are urging him to go for it. The reason? The advisers worry that there will be a barrage of criticism from the left when the Pentagon unveils the results of its “Strategic Posture Review,” a yearlong study of the U.S. nuclear arsenal in the wake of the cold war. It has been widely expected that the review would propose deep cuts, but Pentagon sources say it calls for only marginal changes in the arsenal, largely for cost-cutting purposes....

As Kirkpatrick Sale points out in The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy (453 pages Knopf. $24.95), “God, gold and glory” has been the typical historian’s shorthand for what the European explorers had in mind when they descended on the Western Hemisphere, and in the case of Columbus, gold led the list. Sale, author of “Power Shift” and “Human Scale,” doesn’t much like Columbus. He portrays the admiral as bigoted, close-minded, brutal, secretive, paranoid, materialistic and fatalistically indifferent to the world of nature....

This journey is just part of a way of living that may arise from a new computing model known as the grid. This term, borrowing from the concept of the electrical-power grid, refers to a linkage of many servers into a single system in which complex computing tasks are broken down and parceled out among the various machines. According to its founders such as Ian Foster of Argonne National Laboratory and Carl Kesselman of the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute, the grid was created to do work previously possible only with supercomputers, making such complex tasks much quicker and less costly....

title: “A Night To Remember” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-10” author: “Micheal Hogan” Swanson spent 18 months and more than $50,000 setting up a Y2K-ready homestead near Spokane. He installed $14,000 worth of solar panels. He collected a small arsenal of guns. He stockpiled enough food to feed four people for a year–although he lives alone. “Rationally it seemed the way to go,” he says. “Emotionally it’s been a struggle all the way....

Although the humblest widgets get patented and the most forgettable songs have copyrights, clothing is considered functional, not artistic, so most countries keep it in the public domain. ““That doesn’t mean you can break into a plant and steal a design,’’ says New York University Law School professor Rochelle Dreyfuss. ““But if you see a Chanel suit and get out your sewing machine and fabric, the state protects your right to copy it....