News Break


We interrupt this day to bring you the following rapidly developing story: Ehud Barak is resigning. Unlike our own forentertainment-purposes-only poltiical turmoil, the situation in the Middle East is both gravely serious and genuinely unpredictable. See http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/08/world/08ARAF.html?pagewanted=all for an ominous counterpoint to this development. And for more local developments, see elsewhere. 9'12'00