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...could simply meet with Larry Summers to discuss the merits of divestment, I believe we could allay his concerns,” he said...
...Monetary Fund loan package have to be hammered out, and a decision made on whether to back an unpopular U.S.-led war on Iraq. Erdogan's first act as Turkey's non-Prime Minister will be to tour Europe, starting with an old enemy, Greece. He is hoping to allay fears about an Islamist threat. And then he must convince doubters at home...
...Israeli army's occupation of the West Bank, and a tacit assurance that Israel will not retaliate against Iraq should Saddam Hussein, faced with imminent military defeat, lob Scuds into Israeli cities - as he did 39 times during the Gulf War. In so doing, the U.S. hopes to allay the prewar jitters of Arab leaders, who fear that an Israeli attack on Iraq could inflame their own populations, destabilize their regimes and perhaps draw them into a wider...
These two seem to believe that the Palestinians are so barbaric that they can do nothing to allay their misery short of threatening the safety of Israeli civilians with random acts of violence. I think the Palestinian people are capable of better...
...most famous poem, "Lorelay," set to music by Friedrich Silcher, has some of the melancholia (if not the elfin wit) that marked many Hart lyrics: "I do not know what haunts me,/ What saddened my mind all day;/ An age-old tale confounds me,/ A spell I cannot allay." And a quatrain Heine wrote for his wife Therese - "You're lovely as a flower,/ So pure and fair to see;/ I look at you, and sadness/ Comes stealing over me" - is echoed in Hart's pathetic, lifelong obsession with women. His need for them was exceeded only by his belief...