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...renowned but read. True, Nash did not quite roost in the exalted company of these Everest nest-dwellers, But he published more than 20 volumes of extremely popular light verse, and if he dwelt in cellars, they were best-cellars. He wrote, he lectured, and he was not too arch or arty To appear as a panelist on TV's "Masquerade Party." He called himself not a poet but a "worsifier," But to me Nash was wit's November breeze or the funnyman of freon or the iceman comic or whatever suggests a synonym for coolness and the reversifier. There...
...tough talk now demands action, argues arch-hawk Richard Perle, chairman of the Defense Policy Board, a Pentagon think tank. He responded to Scowcroft's critique by warning, "The failure to take on Saddam after what the president [has] said would produce such a collapse of confidence in the president that it would set back the war on terrorism...
...Abdel Hadi Palace stinks of urine and damp. A little girl with a dirt-smeared face shuffles barefoot in the muddy courtyard. The women of the Zakari family lean out of their window, an Ottoman arch whose grey stone is pitted by the weather of 250 years. The place was built for one of the richest families in Nablus. Now it serves as rented accommodation for the city's poorest, hidden in the heart of the Casbah. "It's not a palace anymore," says Najah Zakari, the mother of one of six large families that squeeze into quarters once meant...
...resolution calling on Obasanjo to resign or else face impeachment on charges of misrule. SAUDI ARABIA Bent Out of Shape The axis of evil developed a kink in it when Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal revealed that Iran, one of U.S. President George W. Bush's three arch-enemies, had handed over 16 Saudi Arabians who were allegedly members of al-Qaeda. The 16 men had fled to Iran to escape war in Afghanistan. The Iranian authorities knew that information gained from the men would be handed to America, said Saud. CHINA Political Shrinks China has revived...
Rusmir Cisic, a Bosnian muslim engineer, remembers the day his native Mostar lost the bridge from which the city takes its name. For more than four centuries the Stari Most, or Old Bridge, linked the Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds, Christianity and Islam, West and East. Its graceful arch and stone towers in southeastern Bosnia were a meeting place for Serbs, Croats and Muslims as well as travelers from as far away as Istanbul and Glasgow. That ended with the Bosnian war, when the Neretva River became a front line between the town's Croat and Muslim residents. Some tried...