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...invited Arafat in for a chat and pressed him to make a public statement condemning the recent wave of terror attacks on Israel. When Arafat was later asked whether he backed peace or the extremists of Hamas, he duly said, "My choice is the peace, the peace of the brave." Clinton also asked Mubarak about the best approaches to use with Assad, and Mubarak later phoned Damascus to lay the groundwork for Clinton's arrival. "It's not just intelligence Mubarak provides," said a U.S. official. "It's insight...
...some people come--friends or roommates of players, usually. And these brave souls ought to be sainted...
...prize is not for me," said Arafat, the terrorist-turned-media darling. "It is for my people who suffered a lot, people who have been able to achieve the peace of the brave, for our martyrs, for our prisoners, for our children, for the future...
...image of the Capitol Hill dome was once the symbol of a great, revered institution founded by the just and the free and the brave. In today's congressional advertising campaigns, the image of the dome looms darkened in the background, a symbol of some vague evil that steals from and disgusts its citizens...
...this brave new world, some people's suffering is more valid than others'. When several male students at Vassar were declared innocent of false charges of date rape, the college's Catherine Comins, the assistant dean of students, said she recognized their pain, "but it is not a pain that I would necessarily have spared them. I think it ideally initiates a process of self-exploration. 'How do I see women?' 'If I did not violate her, could I have?'... These are good questions." Perhaps they are--but if I were falsely accused of murder, I doubt I would thank...