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...think any Arab would dare do this because he would confront personal harassment without any benefits at this moment. The man who would do this would risk his life. I don't think the Arabs in Jerusalem will dare do something for which they don't get approval at least from countries like Jordan or Egypt...
TODAY'S Gubernatorial and Senate races confront Massachusetts voters with two markedly different choices; in one race they will have to pick the lesser of two evils while in the other, they have a choice between two credible, issue-oriented candidates. The state will be able to both tread water and move ahead at the same time. The outcome of the Governor's race clearly pretends to be one of the most critical junctures in the state's history. Democratic nominee Edward J. King has neither offered the voters any sensible vision of the state's future direction...
Indeed, the Chinese?and the Japanese, for that matter?were right to treat this visit as a stupendous event. The sleeping giant of Asia, xenophobic, almost rabid in its suspicions of other nations, had awakened to the possibilities of the real world. It had decided to confront the Soviet Union's expansionist designs on the one hand and its own economic backwardness on the other. To achieve this, Peking was willing to make a great leap outward. Not long ago, China's titular leader, Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, traveled to Rumania, Yugoslavia and Iran, making deals, offering Chinese friendship...
...sleeping with both a male housemate and Bates' wife. As McDowell's keeper, a prissy old couturier, Olivier has The Collection's only openly emotional scene. It is a shocker. When he falls apart under the strains of loneliness and jealousy, he forces the audience to confront the heartbreak that lies beneath the play's cool surface. Yet Olivier-who also produced this show -understands that Pinter's small moments are no less crucial than the big ones. What other actor could turn the simple act of answering a telephone into a poignant intimation...
Reiser said that because of the increasing number of technological advancements in medicine, doctors have begun "to confront dilemmas they had never faced before" in dealing with issues such as euthanasia and the maintenance of terminally ill patients on artificial respirators...