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Yasir Arafat

• November 11  -- Arafat Dies, But At Least the Mrs. Lives Modestly
The Times can’t seem to fit the word “terrorist” on the front page today to describe PLO boss Yasir Arafat on the occasion of his death in Paris. But at least they focus on the missing billion dollars or so he controlled, and how his wife apparently lives on an allowance of $100,000 a month, a sum the Times explained was “relatively small.”

• November 10 -- Ashcroft’s “Excesses” vs. Arafat’s “Aura”
One sign the New York Times is a liberal newspaper is when Attorney General John Ashcroft gets rougher press than a terrorist. On the Times front page, Ashcroft is assailed by critics for sacrificing civil liberties, while the dying Palestinian leader Arafat was a cult hero, touted as a “guerrilla fighter and Nobel Prize winner.”

• July 9 -- Rapping a Pro-Israel Musician
Ben Sisario attends an unusual hip-hop show in Brooklyn featuring Israelis and Palestinians rapping against the Israeli "occupation." A Palestinian rapper who describes the Israel army as terrorists is called "blunt;" a pro-Israel rapper describes Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat as a smoker and is said to spread "incendiary nationalist imagery."

• May 28 -- Sharon and Arafat, "Separated at Birth"
Columnist Nicholas Kristof lumps "right-wing jingoist" Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in with Yasir Arafat, snarling that both men share "a bloodstained obduracy, suggesting that they might as well have been twins separated at birth."