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Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State for both Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and so often a player in the Middle East game, seemed subdued, even misty- eyed. He walked slowly, graying head bent. "A stunning moment," he murmured. James Baker, Secretary of State for George Bush, thought time had done its work as he watched the tableau of peace. He had convened meetings, pushing the old adversaries together at Madrid 23 months ago. Clinton knew how much that legwork had counted. He reached through three rows of people to make sure Arafat and Rabin shook hands with Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History in a Handshake | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...scholarly bent might have come from her grandparents, she says. Growing up in a sophisticated, well-educated Jewish area of Istanbul provided her with both her cosmopolitanism and, perhaps, the motivation to leave her native country for a scholarship at Brandeis. Today she returns to Turkey only for visits and has no plans to live there again...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: A Hegel Admirer | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

...scholarly bent might have come from her grandparents, she says. Growing up in a sophisticated, well-educated Jewish area of Istanbul provided her with both her cosmopolitanism and, perhaps, the motivation to leave her native country for a scholarship at Brandeis. Today she returns to Turkey only for visits and has no plans to live there again...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: A Hegel Admirer | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

...scholarly bent might have come from her grandparents, she says. Growing up in a sophisticated, well-educated Jewish area of Istanbul provided her with both her cosmopolitanism and, perhaps, the motivation to leave her native country for a scholarship at Brandeis. Today she returns to Turkey only for visits and has no plans to live there again...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: A Hegel Admirer | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...hell is other people"; here, hell is being stranded with this couple playing out their sad games. She smacks him around, dances in the nude, spits back his verbal abuse, rides him like an old horse. The two must have Alex as an audience for their displays of hatred, bent lust and mutual need. When he's gone they seem dead, spent, like marionettes after the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hell Is These People | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

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