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Trial without error
Opportunities afforded by the US-UK decision to agree to a trial of the Lockerbie suspects in the Hague should not be lost in political point-scoring, writes Ibrahim Nafie
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Close up
Only in America
Salama A. Salama
With increasing interest, the Arabs watch as the crisis which has struck the US, and particularly President Clinton, unfolds.
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The president and the baseball player
Good and evil do battle just about anywhere, writes Edward Said; damnation and redemption can be found in the most unlikely places: in a corridor off the Oval Office, or on a large green field. There are men in black, and men in caps
Democracy and ideology
Will the 21st century usher in the era of democracy, or rather face democracy with new forms of challenge. Mohamed Sid-Ahmed discusses the issue
Reflections
Hani Shukrallah
All hail Caesar
I have as much interest in what Bill Clinton did or did not do with Monica Lewinsky as I have had in the various infidelities, and confessions thereof, of assorted British royals, living and departed -- i.e., none. --read on--
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Editorial
A very bad deal
US Middle East envoy Dennis Ross will end another failed tour to the region tomorrow Friday after a series of fruitless meetings with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
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Naguib Mahfouz
Who's the enemy?
I cannot understand the significance of the pact to be concluded between Turkey, Israel and Jordan. What function can such an alliance serve, now that the Cold War is over and polarisation between two superpowers is a thing of the past?
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This week:
Starr
Soapbox
Murder most foul
Gamil Mattar
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