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Broadway's version of the Academy Awards, threatened with cancellation by CBS after years of abysmal ratings, rebounds with viewers--drawing record Nielsens--but not with critics.
A report from Jerusalem Monday in La Repubblica of Rome said that the Jerusalem Post 's source, Hamas Gaza leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi, denied making the statements attributed to him and that a "furious" Arafat threatened Rantisi with arrest and interrogation by the Palestinian police.
In September 1687 Venetian forces threatened Athens and one of their mortars hit the Parthenon, igniting the powder inside.
The main German newspapers led Monday on NATO's new Strategic Concept, which includes "out of area" military deployment if Western interests are threatened.
The Quebec government argued in this case that French still needs protection in the province, while the judge sided with the defense, holding that French had made great strides and is not threatened.