101.  By next year, Palestinian officials say, they will control the administration and curriculum of most schools in East Jerusalem.

102.  Cheney offered Tuesday to meet with the Palestinian leader if a cease-fire takes hold, and Palestinian officials said it could happen as early as Monday in Cairo.

103.  Clinton will light a Christmas tree in Bethlehem, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, in a stop that Palestinian officials said will help legitimize their claims of statehood.

104.  Clinton said she would not meet any Palestinian officials during her two-day whirlwind trip, which marks her first foreign foray since taking office last year.

105.  Control over Jerusalem would be decided over three years, the Globe said, citing the same unnamed Palestinian officials.

106.  Colonel Ameleh and other Palestinian officials denied for hours that he was under arrest.

107.  Compared with the villas of some Palestinian officials and businessmen, the simple house rented by the Arafats is humdrum and middle-class.

108.  Despite their mounting criticism of the Bush administration, Palestinian officials are still trying to persuade it that they are cracking down on militancy.

109.  During negotiations in recent days, Palestinian officials said they were willing to prevent Hamas and Islamic Jihad from conducting further attacks but would not carry out mass arrests.

110.  Earlier, in Gaza, he met with Yasser Arafat and other senior Palestinian officials.