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...because he was suspected of spying for Israel, he fled to Jerusalem's embassy in Washington. Accompanied by his wife Anne and their cat Dusty, he pleaded with Israeli guards for sanctuary after the automatic security gate safely closed behind his 1980 green Mustang, stranding the FBI outside the compound. "Listen! I'm Danny Cohen!" he told the guards, using the false name on his Israeli passport. "It's me, Jonathan Pollard!" But Israeli officials wouldn...
...palpable distrust between Israeli and Palestinian leaders despite six days of intense talks in a Maryland compound bodes ill for real progress, whatever the spin on the outcome of the talks. Israel wants Arafat to clamp down hard on his Hamas opponents; Arafat is reluctant to take unpopular steps on behalf of an Israeli government he doesn't trust. "Arafat has lost hope that he can make significant progress with Netanyahu," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "He's unlikely to make unpopular decisions for a deal he doesn't believe Netanyahu will keep anyway." Arafat's reported illness...
...family lives in the royal compound in Amman in an elegant but relatively modest stone house. Like Hussein, perhaps more so, Hassan avoids ostentation. Both brothers do their own driving. Hassan is an observant Muslim who attends the mosque and frequently cites Koranic verses. The Hashemites, descendants of the Sharifs of Mecca, base their legitimacy on their direct lineage to the Prophet Muhammad. Hassan's life-style has facilitated amicable relations with the Muslim Brotherhood, the most important opposition faction in Jordan. He was also instrumental in repairing ties with Iran, strained over charges that Tehran was fomenting Islamic unrest...
...phoned and Ms. Currie put the President on the line, she did not log the call, though the standard procedure was to note all calls, personal and professional. According to Secret Service uniformed officers, Ms. Currie sometimes tried to persuade them to admit Ms. Lewinsky to the White House compound without making a record...
Unvexed by boring details, which usually just compound the implausibility of action movies anyway, we are free to appreciate the sheer stylishness of Ronin. This derives from the counterpoint between Mamet's verbal manner--weary, knowing, elliptical--and director John Frankenheimer's bold visual manner...