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...entire people. We need to give peace talks a chance." That means giving Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas enough time to secure the release of prisoners like Mardawi. Palestinian militants agreed to Abbas' request for a halt to attacks, mainly because they believe he'll use a period of calm to push for the release of some of the 9,000 prisoners doing time in Israeli jails - even those like Mardawi, whom Israel classifies as having "blood on their hands," meaning those who killed Israelis or took part in operations that ended in Israeli deaths. So far, Israel has freed only...
...Haradinaj "has once again put the interests of Kosovo above his own." HERO FOR A LIFETIME beamed the newspaper Express. NATO flew in 1,000 reinforcements to guard against the possibility of mob violence, but Kosovo Albanians greeted the news that a "war hero" had been indicted with relative calm. International officials are already holding Kosovo up as an example to neighboring Serbia and to Croatia, which have been reluctant to turn over popular suspects. Diplomats...
...turning the fabric. His wife Kristy, laughing along with his stories, quietly reaches out, frees the curtains from his grasp and places his hand back on the couch. Twist, reach, release. Twist, reach, release. Finally, Kristy gently rests her hand on her husband's and leaves it there to calm him. It's a gesture that would be unremarkable in its tenderness if not for one thing: Jim's bags are packed, and he's moving out of the house...
...unusual creatures as if they were specimens in a jar - which makes it all the more of a jolt when you actually start to care about them. As with all Ishiguro's books, the main characters - a group of friends, led by Kathy H. and Tommy D. - remain outwardly calm, accepting their fates. Even when contemplating the grim end that being "special" has in store for them, they're laconic. "I made my decision, and once I'd made it, I never wavered," says Kathy matter-of-factly about taking the first step toward becoming a donor. The restrained, almost...
Rips isn't horrified by any of this. Instead he manages, by dint of a gift for calm reflection, to accept and ultimately be made wiser by it. His writing is bluff and simple but often quite funny and sophisticated. He takes gently learned excursions through the work of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, and he uses the fact that his father managed an eyeglasses factory to weave symbolic variations on the theme of blindness and vision. His aim is not just to chivy out the secrets of a man who didn't appear to have any but also to understand...