This resolution should explicitly supersede the three resolutions that until now have been cited as the legal norm for Middle East relations: Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 (regarding the return of territory) and General Assembly resolution 194 (regarding the return of Palestinian refugees to their former homes).

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The only thing that now stands between them and this supermajority is Norm Coleman and his interminable legal battle to prevent his Democratic rival, Al Franken, from being seated, and that battle looks increasingly doomed.

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For many, that just added fuel to the flames as well as irritating the bank's shareholders, because it had no legal obligation to help investors, even though doing so had since 2003 become the norm.

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