Word: benjamin
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...President to set foot on Palestinian-controlled soil, Clinton still hoped that once he got back home there would be time to sit down with House G.O.P. centrists and bid for their support. But the strain was building. At his joint press conference in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his answers were weary and sometimes brisk to the point of anger. And now his aides were telling him that impeachment, which everyone believed was impossible just a few weeks earlier, was inevitable. Undecided Republicans were falling into the party line...
Chauvinistic English critics are calling Thomas Ades, 28, the hottest composer since Benjamin Britten. Don't believe the hype. Ades' first opera, just released on CD, is a thoroughly nasty piece of goods. Philip Hensher's sneering libretto tells the scabrous story of the decline and fall of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll (the "Mrs. Sweeny" of Cole Porter's You're the Top), who liked to do the Full Monica on her male servants. Ades' score is a glib farrago of sour, splintered vocal writing, postmodern pastiche and cartoony sound effects. Is this the music of the future? No, just...
...peace is not what Shahak is bringing to Israeli politics. The left-center Labor party is worried that the Rabin prot?g? will split the ?peace camp? by siphoning off centrist Labor members. That could force Shahak, Benjamin Netanyahu or Labor leader Ehud Barak to stake out extreme positions in order to attract enough votes to form a majority -- just the sort of frenzied coalition-building that left Netanyahu beholden to hard-liners against the peace process. But nobody?s panicking yet. ?Shahak has run very well in the polls, but it's entirely as an unknown entity,? reminds TIME Jerusalem...
...Benjamin Netanyahu opened his reelection campaign on a note as old as democracy itself: His opponents are out of touch with the will of the people. "Either you replace the people or you replace the parliament," Netanyahu said in a televised speech to the Knesset Monday night. "And I agree to replace the parliament." Israel's prime minister says the people support his policies (which are essentially an abandonment of the October Wye Plantation agreement) and that it's the Labor party, which split with Netanyahu's governing coalition after he refused to comply with a scheduled withdrawal of troops...
...unstable coalition that brought Benjamin Netanyahu to power has crumbled after just 30 months. Monday the national government came apart amidst arguments about Netanyahu's handling of peace negotiations, and the Knesset took the first step toward early elections. It has to vote for new elections twice more before they can be called, but the move has such wide support it's almost a sure bet to pass...