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When Geoffrey M. Stevens ’03 first read “Death and the Maiden,” an award-winning play by Ariel Dorfman, he was underwhelmed. “I got the message but didn’t like the dialogue,” he says. “I wanted more action or tension. Something seemed missing...
When Geoffrey M. Stevens ’03 first read “Death and the Maiden,” an award-winning play by Ariel Dorfman, he was underwhelmed. “I got the message but didn’t like the dialogue,” he says. “I wanted more action or tension. Something seemed missing...
Middle Eastern Paradox #2785: The collapse of Ariel Sharon's national unity government is a sign of stability in Israeli politics. Sharon's Defense Minister Benjamin ben-Eliezer took his Labor Party out of the unity government on Wednesday in a move that may precipitate fresh elections. Sharon faces a no-confidence vote in the Knesset next Monday, which will determine whether he'll manage to attract sufficient support to continue governing with a narrower coalition or be forced to call new elections for early next year...
...even when the Israeli people overwhelmingly elected Ariel Sharon as Prime Minister—62 to 37 percent—because they demanded security and deterrence, they also made clear that on all the key substantive issues they were more willing than ever before to make concessions if (a very big if) the Palestinians stop the violence and incitement, and negotiate in good faith. According to exit polls the day Sharon was elected, Israelis were twice as likely as two years earlier (when Ehud Barak defeated former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) to make concessions on Jerusalem, a Palestinian state...
...uprising. The "road map" to peace, which is also backed by the E.U., Russia and the U.N., calls for an end to violence, Palestinian political reforms and Israeli military withdrawals to pave the way to a Palestinian state by the end of 2005. Burns met Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian officials, but not their leader Yasser Arafat. Meanwhile, Israeli troops re-entered the West Bank town of Jenin, in response to a suicide bombing on Monday that killed 14 people outside the town of Pardes Hanna in northern Israel. PHILIPPINES Caught in the Act Five men were...