Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five thousand miles from the Middle East conflict, it's easy to take recourse in one-sided rhetoric such as that of "How Wye Failed the Palestinians" (Nov. 10). Bishara and Fahmawi reveal an astonishing lack of understanding of the basis for negotiation, despite their claim to seek a just peace. The essence of a peace agreement is compromise. Those who live in the Middle East, both Arab and Jew, unerstand that while Oslo and Wye are certainly not perfect, they are steps on A peaceful compromise. In a process of compromise, each side must make efforts to understand...
...been at the points of conflict," Epps said. "[My role is] to be the person in the middle...
...additional cruCIAl day-after question, one that nearly everyone in the Clinton Administration had tried to put out of their minds: What happens the day after Saddam offers a last-minute capitulation? And that is exactly what he did, again taking the international community to the edge of military conflict, then seeking to weasel out in a flurry of paper diplomacy. The U.S. had again massed a multibillion-dollar armada in the Persian Gulf only to have Saddam stall its war machine with a sudden change of heart...
...then, the public and most of the American press, including TIME, had turned against the war. That was due in no small measure to the words and pictures from the correspondents sent to Vietnam to cover the conflict. Many of them went to Southeast Asia convinced of the rightness of the struggle and grew first into skeptics and then critics. For their trouble, many were killed or wounded, and most were criticized as biased at best and unpatriotic at worst...
...They Rock So Hard seriously. Perhaps the inconsistency of the music and the lyrics is a failing, allowing listeners to willfully misunderstand or ignore the meanings that Reel Big Fish are attempting to express. But the inconsistency may also serve to highlight alternative music's disturbing acceptance of conflict. And besides, if Reel Big Fish set their lyrics to appropriately violent music, their songs would not be nearly as much...