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So if Barak gets his final deal with the Palestinians, Israel may find itself with a new kind of problem: an autonomous Palestinian state, a stone's throw (literally) from sacred Israeli territory, that is sinking into Third World poverty, anarchy, and civil war.
Democratic congressional candidates are sinking.
The coming of the rain has only added weight to the sinking realization that I'm about as free as Pavlov's best friend, acting as it does as cold evidence of geographical determinism--the idea that the landscape shapes the human culture that thrives within it.
Another editorial charts the sinking status of the refugee.
Another leading Belgian paper, La Meuse , expressed regret that "the last symbol of a united Belgium is sinking into the bedclothes," but in general the press was less condemnatory of the king's adultery than of the intrusion into his private life.