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4) On Wednesday, Israel offered to pull back to the margins of Nablus and permit the Palestinian
Authority free rein to move against militants there, Israeli officials said. But Palestinian officials
apparently rejected that offer in a rare joint security meeting with Israelis on Wednesday night.
Palestinian officials have repeatedly demanded that Israel withdraw from all Palestinian-
controlled territory.
On Dec. 5, one Palestinian was killed when Hamas supporters rioted here after the Palestinian
Authority attempted to place the founder and spiritual leader of the group, Sheik Ahmed Yassin,
under house arrest. Sheik Yassin, who is a paraplegic, ultimately agreed to a voluntary house
arrest.
In his speech Sunday, Mr. Arafat declared that he would "allow only one authority" in
Palestinian territory — his own. Since then, Palestinian officials said, more than 30 offices of
Hamas in the Gaza Strip have been closed.
In red paint, policemen have scrawled, "Closed by order of the Palestinian Authority." In one
case, someone had added to the official message these words: "and the Israeli authority."
5) For all its ups and downs in the studio, Pearl Jam is a potent live band, so much so that many
of the group's concerts have been recorded and turned into bootleg albums, something the band
has allowed since 1995, when it first began letting fans bring small recording devices to concerts.
In an unprecedented move last September, and perhaps to deter sales of overpriced bootlegs, the
group released 25 double-disc live albums, one from each stop of its 2000 European tour.
Now the quintet is putting out authorized two-CD sets of every concert from its 2000
North American tour, beginning with 23 that correspond with the first leg of that jaunt. (The
remaining 24, from the second leg, come out on March 27.) It's overkill, for sure, but like much
of what gets offered for sale these days, the main value is in the dazzling array of choices. Did
you go see the Tampa show? Now you can shell out some dough and take home a two-disc
souvenir! Want to hear PJ cover The Who's "Baba O'Riley" or Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free
World"? Make sure you buy the CD from the right concert, or you'll be hurtin'.
6) Iraqi Official Says Female Inmate to Be Released
By EDWARD WONG 9:27 AM ET
An official with the Justice Ministry today said a female scientist being held prisoner will be
freed on bail, as a militant group claimed it beheaded an American hostage.
7) For sociolinguists the whole notion of linguistic prescriptivism is anathema. For them,
colloquial, vernacular usage, far from being something to be eliminated, is the main focus of
interest. Variation in language, instead of being an accidental, dysfunctional element which
impedes efficient communication, and which should be suppressed, is crucial to the effective
functioning of a language. Three features of language variation are taken as axiomatic:
(1) Variability is inherent in language and central to its social role. Without it we would be
incapable of communicating all manner of nuances in our everyday use of language, in
particular, vital information about our personal identity (along the social axis of variation) and
about our relationship with the addressee (along the stylistic axis).
(2) There are no natural breaks between language varieties, no pure homogeneous styles and
dialects, no neat word boxes, only gradations along social and stylistic continua. These fluid
categories are susceptible to quantificational analysis.
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