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...elect Bashir Gemayel, were carried out by Christian Phalangist militiamen. The report of a commission headed by Israel's Supreme Court President, Yitzhak Kahan, found that Sharon had "disregarded the danger of acts of vengeance." The commission concluded that Sharon had ordered the militiamen into the camps and bore "indirect responsibility" for what had happened; Sharon resigned his defense post after the findings were released...
...public life, Marius suspects, More was a bit of an actor. Having succeeded at the main chance, he worked equally hard at humility. He played the family man to the hilt. His daughter Margaret was the love of his life. But he constantly harangued his first wife Jane, who bore him four children in seven years. His second wife Alice, whom he married within a month after Jane died at 23, was a testy widow he may have selected precisely because she did not attract him. Sex, Marius suggests, was the "ruling drama of his life," the profound guilt that...
...picked 1969 randomly. That was the year Bill Russell retired. Cousy was 40 then. "I could have played that long without hurting myself or anyone else too badly. If the aging superstar continues to carry the load, the aging process accelerates." However, Russell bore most of the heavy equipment, and when Cousy became unable to hold up all of his traditional parts, he changed roles without anyone noticing. Here was the magician's finest sleight of hand...
Sharon sued after the magazine published a February 1983 cover story about the findings of an official Israeli commission, headed by Supreme Court President Yitzhak Kahan, which concluded that Sharon as well as other Israeli officials bore "indirect" responsibility for the massacre. Sharon subsequently stepped down as Defense Minister, though he remained in the Cabinet and is now Israel's Minister of Industry and Trade. Sharon's suit is aimed at a paragraph in the story describing a condolence call Sharon paid to the Gemayel family the day after the assassination of the Lebanese President-elect. The passage...
...always been a difficult one, especially when further tainted with heavy ennui. Jourdan never allowed this boredom to turn to bitterness, but like so much else in this production, the bitterness, but ershadows the sweet. Jourdan made even boredom elegant; Hewitt practically expectorates the chorus "It's a bore" as if he were sending his garcon back with some ill-prepared pleasant...