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In Israel, Ha'aretz defended the police against charges that they are biased against the right because they rushed to investigate corruption allegations against former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The church, part of a former monastery, has a unique feature: the floor of the transept is paved with bricks and stones painted with Spanish figures.
When they grow, as characters in television dramas must, it is by learning that their former positions in the upper-middle classes don't give them any particular edge over the common folk they find themselves among.
It was declared a national holiday in several states of the former Soviet Union (for a small fee).
Yes, the top right-hand column of the New York Times tells us that France will give in to President Clinton and agree to limit the expansion of NATO to just three former East Bloc countries for now (that's the national edition--the Metro edition uses that prime print estate for a story about New York Governor Pataki's decision to abandon a major welfare cutback).