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...magazine is both late at night and musically inspired. James listens to bossa nova stuff on the radio as he finishes up the Scrutiny and contemplates how much he has left to do on his problem sets. Last week, I thought it would help him out if I substituted ABBA for bossa nova. But it didn't seem to work, much like Leverett's juke box experiment. Oh well...
ManRay. 21 Brookline St., Central Square, Cambridge. 864-0400. Abba Festival on Sept. 30. Carnival on October...
...Abba Eban, Israel's former Foreign Minister and chief dove, once observed in wonderment that when it comes to peace, the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. In 1947, when the U.N. offered them a state side by side with Israel, they rejected the plan and joined the Arab war to destroy the nascent Jewish state in order to take all of Palestine for themselves. They lost...
...years later, and the Palestinians may finally have proved Abba Eban wrong. The stunning agreement between Israel and the P.L.O. on the so-called Gaza-Jericho First plan is in spirit and even in some detail and language a resurrection of the Camp David plan that they once so bitterly scorned...
...Abba Eban, a former Israeli Foreign Minister, says the G-7 partners could be a real force for action, "but they have not learned to think together. They bring together an extraordinary concentration of power, but their meetings don't seem to produce anything." Eban's prescription: "They should recognize that collectively they have immense power to change the human condition, but individually they have not. They should set up a permanent institution, almost like a new state. Existing bodies cannot do the job." That would require both the wisdom and the leadership qualities of modern-day philosopher-kings. Though...