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Lies and truths -- Let's act like we didn't know -- 9/11 -- Hamas -- A strong hand and an outstretched arm -- The failure of Abbas -- Withdrawal from Gaza -- Olmert -- Epilogue -- Chronology of major events -- Appendix

Beydoun, Ahmad: Movements of the past and deadlocks of the present. - S. 3-19 Choueiri, Youssef M.: Explaining civil wars in Lebanon. - S. 21-46 Mattar, Mohammad F.: Is Lebanese confessionalism to blame? - S. 47-66 Chrabieh, Pamela: Breaking the vicious circle! Contributions of the 25-35 Lebanese age group. - S. 69-88 Asseily, Alexandra: Breaking the cycle of violence in Lebanon. - S. 89-119 Haugbolle, Sune: Memory as representation and memory as idiom. - S. 121-133 Johnson, Michael: Managing political change in Lebanon: challenges and prospects. - S. 137-165 Shuayb, Maha: Education: a means for the cohesion of the Lebanese confessional society. - S. 167-195 Farha, Mark: From Beirut spring to regional winter? - S. 197-235 Kerr, Michael: The philosophy of Lebanese power-sharing. - S. 237-254 Shebaya, Halim: Intifada 2005: a look backwards and a look forward. - S. 255-283 Jaafar, Rudy: Democratic system reform in Lebanon: an electoral approach. - S. 285-305 Salam, Nawaf: Ta'if's dysfunctions and the need for constitutional reform. - S. 307-323

The end of management? -- The ultimate advantage -- An agenda for management innovation -- Creating a community of purpose : Whole Foods market -- Building an innovation democracy : W.L. Gore -- Aiming for an evolutionary advantage : Google -- Escaping the shackles -- Embracing new principles -- Learning from the fringe -- Becoming a management innovator -- Building the future of management

This paper develops a model of social interactions with endogenous association. People are assumed to invest in relationships to maximize their utility. Even in a linear-in-means model, when associations are endogenous, the effect of macro-group composition on behavior is non-linear and varies across individuals. We also show that larger groups facilitate sorting. Using data on associations among high school students, we provide a range of evidence consistent with our model. Individuals associate with people whose behaviors and characteristics are similar to their own. This tendency is stronger in large groups. We also show that behaviors vary within and between macro-groups in the way predicted by endogenous association.

In Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs for evaluating causal effects of interventions, assignment to a treatment is determined at least partly by the value of an observed covariate lying on either side of a fixed threshold. These designs were first introduced in the evaluation literature by Thistlewaite and Campbell (1960). With the exception of a few unpublished theoretical papers, these methods did not attract much attention in the economics literature until recently. Starting in the late 1990s, there has been a large number of studies in economics applying and extending RD methods. In this paper we review some of the practical and theoretical issues involved in the implementation of RD methods.

Study with reference to Marathwada, India

Palestine; politics and government; security; 1988-2004; comparative study