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...follow-up question is, what is a respectable civilized people, anymore? For "civilized," Oz places Israel somewhere on the continuum between Hitler and the Messiah." Israel is a kind of "intermission" between the drama played out at Hitler's behest and the morality play with the Messiah at center stage. The omnipresence of these two figures allows Israel, in Oz's opinion, some leeway in its search to define what "civilized" means to Israelis. Oz hints at his own definition in an interview, coolly allowing that "wars are only just when fought for survival and freedom...
Meanwhile, the now famous five-member advisory commission, appointed at the behest of Congress to review Interior's controversial coal-leasing program, gamely met in Washington. But Watt chose not to wait for its recommendations; instead, he decided to issue five leases for coal-rich federal land in North Dakota to private companies (cost to them: $912 million). That decision flew in the face of a directive from the House Interior Committee, which had ordered Watt to delay granting the leases until Congress could review them. As Watt saw it, the House had no legal right to stop...
...week, in a way that drew angry stirrings from Congress and renewed pressure for Watt's resignation. The occasion was a breakfast meeting of some 200 U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbyists in Washington, D.C. Watt was talking about a five-member commission that he had appointed at congressional behest to review Interior's much debated program of coal leasing on public lands, which has been called a multimillion-dollar giveaway at taxpayers' expense. Watt may have meant to extol his choice of commissioners, but what came out was something else. The panel, he said, had "every kind...
...wishes. Others involved in the dispute, however, are not so acquiescent. Local commercial television stations not only want to lay claim to any footage that KUED ultimately airs but have considered taking legal action to get at any material the station retains at Mrs. Clark's behest. Ernie Ford, managing editor of KSL-TV News in Salt Lake City, has argued that the public has a right to see the tape because it was made in part at public expense...
...from The Marriage of Figaro plug Suntory whisky, and a Strauss waltz is used as a background for a refrigerator-deodorizer ad. At a children's concert by the New Japan Philharmonic recently, more than 2,000 grade schoolers in the audience rose at the conductor's behest and, in two-part harmony, sang the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth...