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...front foyer. His allegiance is not to music that is popular, but to music that is earth-shattering. And indeed, the BSO's last concert, featuring Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Bela Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin, might have been earth-shattering enough to crack fault lines into Symphony Hall...
...belongs to all English speakers, Heaney's writing also belongs to all English-speakers. Heaney's cultural reclamation has done more than recycle the same problem of exclusive ownership. Foregrounding the Irish perspective in English literature was not an aggressive repossession, but an invitation for others to try to crack the monopoly. Thankfully, Heaney keeps from falling into the same old trap: His cultural reclamation stakes out land for more than just one ethnic group, marking it off emphatically as a public space...
...much publicity about what the agency does can get a spy killed. Over nine days of grueling negotiations at Wye, however, Tenet and a small group of agency operatives became the key diplomats who hammered out the most contentious part of the interim accord: the Palestinians' promise to crack down on terror- ists so Israel would withdraw from more West Bank land. Tenet, said Bill Clinton, "had an unusual, almost unprecedented role to play because of the security considerations." His spies are venturing into uncharted waters as well. The CIA will monitor the Israeli and Palestinian roundup of suspected terrorists...
...years ago, the Massachusetts legislature passed a welfare reform bill designed to tighten requirements and stop people from taking advantage of the system. In particular, the bill's supporters sought to crack down on the common welfare stereotype: the lazy mother who sits at home and watches the soaps, relying on welfare--on taxpayer dollars!--to support her for life...
...vocal, but it's a minority." That doesn't mean that Netanyahu has reversed his own ideological opposition to trading land for peace. Says Beyer, "Netanyahu can live with this deal because he knows he can get out of it by saying the Palestinians aren't doing enough to crack down on Hamas." Indeed, no one will be more surprised than Arafat if, 12 weeks from now, Israeli troops withdraw as scheduled...