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...Oslo, of course, had been premised on the same recognition, of course, but today it is the hard-line anti-Oslo parties in Israel and among the Palestinians that appear to be acknowledging their inability to enforce a violent solution. There may also, this time, be a third element of conceptual progress: The "roadmap," for all its limitations, appears to reflect a growing recognition in Washington that the era when Israelis and Palestinians could find their own, bilateral route to a peace agreement may have passed, and that resolving the conflict may now increasingly require that the international community...
...overturned laws was one making it illegal to have a gun within 1,000 ft. of a school zone and others allowing states to be sued for discrimination on the basis of age, disability and other criteria. To Rehnquist's critics, the large number of overturned laws made it appear that he was practicing the same judicial activism for which conservatives attacked the Warren court. "This is not so much the court setting itself as the protector of the states," says David Garrow, a law professor at Emory University. "It's the court setting itself up as the regulator...
...Phair has a long creative life ahead of her. But she already knows at least three words that will appear in the first paragraph of her obituary: Exile in Guyville. The 1993 album was the definitive feminist-indie-rock manifesto and one of the most influential discs of the '90s. On classics like Flower, Phair used her low, wry voice to bridge Gloria Steinem and Candace Bushnell and capture the dynamics of being a thinking woman who likes sex. Guyville didn't sell much, but it cleared an airstrip for everyone from Alanis Morissette to Lauryn Hill and created...
...photographs of U.S. soldiers grimly trying to control crowds in Iraq saddened me [WORLD, June 9]. The Americans do not appear to be showing compassion. Respect for cultural differences and understanding are lacking in the Bush Administration and its armed forces. Being a superpower requires tactful diplomacy, along with the need to adjust to different cultural habits. Not everyone in this world accepts the American lifestyle and way of thinking. MICHAEL HAYES Calgary, Canada...
...Chinese public has long been prone to worship leaders who appear even infinitesimally different from dictators. Take, for example, the public's veneration of Premier Zhou Enlai toward the end of the Cultural Revolution. That reverence had much more to do with disillusionment with Mao than evidence that Zhou was truly another kind of leader. As the French politician L?on Blum once said, "I believe it because I hope for it." The Chinese public might mistake benevolence from their ruler for democratic values and might confuse administrative reforms with real political reforms?but the leadership will...