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Were it not for a last-minute concession by organizers, the event could easily have resulted in more serious violence. The previous week had seen repeated clashes in Jerusalem between police and curly forelocked Hasidic youths, who burned tires and hurled rotten eggs and stones. An unknown extremist Jewish group...
Burns' concession coincides with the GOP's expected acknowledgment in Virginia that the Democrat there had won, giving Democrats now a 51-49 advantage of the Senate.
In fact, the Lebanon war will probably make Israel even less open to compromise. Olmert, according to his aides, confided to his Cabinet that he intends to shelve his promise to remove some Israeli settlers from the West Bank as part of a disengagement from the Palestinians. The reversal is...
Instead, there was Reed, just 45 but with crow's-feet carved gently into his temples, offering a meager group of supporters a curt concession speech in a hotel ballroom in Buckhead last week. He had lost the primary to a little-known state senator named Casey Cagle in a...
Clearly, the usher was right: the only sweet and easy parts of the play were the M&Ms from the concession stand. “The Maids” might not have made my day easier, but it closed Burkle’s directorial career at Harvard on a high...