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...someone who has pledged to die a martyr, Yasser Arafat resists intimations of mortality. A year ago, his doctors told TIME that Arafat might have stomach cancer, but the Palestinian leader refused to leave his besieged compound in Ramallah to seek treatment; if he did, Arafat feared, the Israelis might block him from returning. In recent weeks, as his health deteriorated, Arafat's official spokesmen said it was nothing serious. By early last week, Arafat couldn't keep food down; even the cornflakes he ate on Thursday morning had to be pureed. He was unable to move his legs fully...
Behind the scenes, the jostling has begun. Late Thursday night, as bulldozers cleared the courtyard of Arafat's compound of the concrete-filled oil drums and wrecked cars dumped there to prevent Israeli special forces from landing a helicopter to kidnap or kill Arafat, members of the P.L.O. Executive Committee met to discuss who would assume leadership duties while Arafat was abroad. No leader wanted to appear to be jumping into Arafat's shoes before he was dead, but P.L.O. chiefs told TIME they decided that in the absence of Arafat, Secretary-General of the P.L.O. Executive Committee, Mahmoud Abbas...
...death should be mourned,” said Rami R. Sarafa ’07, an officer of the Palestine Solidarity Committee. “He was a noble man. He was not selfish. He lived in his compound, wore his khakis and loved his people...
...intimate film about the lives of a small cast of characters, this simple masterpiece by director Mike Leigh manages to be at once philosophically expansive and physically claustrophobic. Personalities too large for their surroundings compound the effect of poverty on spaciousness—there is merely too little room to accommodate everyone, their needs for privacy and their individual desires. Imelda Staunton gives a tight performance as the title character, a mid-century London mother who tests light bulbs in a factory and keeps house for the wealthy to provide for her children and aged mother. Somehow, she still finds...
...good” and exploring whether it’s worth attempting. An intimate film about the lives of a small cast of characters, this simple masterpiece by director Mike Leigh manages to be at once philosophically expansive and physically claustrophobic. Personalities too large for their surroundings compound the effect of poverty on spaciousness—there is merely too little room to accommodate everyone, their needs for privacy and their individual desires. Leigh creates an economy of space, framing the lives of a family at a scale too close for comfort...