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...maybe the same isn't true for Nick. I've stayed up all night worrying about his tenuous mental condition, and I don't see any easy answers in sight. He's caught in a horrendous double-bind, just the sort of thing that leads to schizophrenia and full-scale psychotic breakdowns. And now, somehow, I feel that all this is my fault...
...uncertainty about the succession has begun to paralyze the Chinese bureaucracy vis-a-vis such sensitive issues as the negotiations on political organization in Hong Kong after the Chinese takeover in 1997. Says a China watcher in Hong Kong: "No one wants to make a decision now. That would bind them, and no one knows what is going to happen when Deng dies...
...gluey sugars were known to bind to a family of proteins called selectins, which had already been identified as the substances that connect white blood cells to blood vessel walls...
...arid lands of Israelis and Arabs. This, more than the Declaration of Principles, was the affirmation of a new era that watchers could believe. The parchment signed out on the lawn was a framework for interim Palestinian self- government, and it was for the archives, a document meant to bind Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization to further constructive deliberation. It was the handshake between the Israeli Prime Minister and the chairman of the P.L.O. that mattered. Men, not papers, make peace...
...Palestinians would undertake given any autonomy on the West Bank and Gaza. But the short-range Katyushas of today will very soon be medium range SCUDS from North Korea. In the face of advancing technology, a country whose survival depends on "strategic depth" will find itself in an awful bind, needing more and more depth to offer the same measure of protection...