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...video for Don Henley's newest song, The Garden of Allah, Kirk Douglas plays Satan. The 79-year-old actor, who agreed to take the role after consulting his rabbi, has no lines but lip-synchs quite convincingly--no mean feat for a man who's almost deaf...
...short one, which seems even shorter because of what lies ahead. Every January seems to be filled with too much unstructured time, too much guilt over unproductive winter breaks and too many days between when classes end and exams start. Year after year these gripes fall on deaf ears, and calendar reform seems hopeless...
...Shin Bet's spy--reportedly rated by his handlers as a good operative--was not truly blind and deaf to the plans, why did the security service fail to act? This key, and so far unanswered, question has spawned a host of conspiracy theories. Right-wing circles are calling Raviv an agent provocateur who purposefully incited anti-Rabin fanaticism. An alternate, even wilder theory holds that Shin Bet actually plotted a faked assassination attempt in order to smear opponents of the peace process. Under this scenario agents supposedly gave Amir a gun loaded with blanks, but his brother betrayed...
...have to overcome tremendous obstacles. My favorite interviews are not with heads of state or celebrities, but with people like [paralyzed policeman] Steven McDonald or the pitcher [and cancer victim] Dave Dravecky. In fact, one of my first interviews for the Today show was with a blind and deaf poet in Brooklyn...
...temperance of more consistency and temperance ever since, it relentlessly broke the Western analysts' dream of "peaceful transformation" by perpetrating the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. In that episode, some of the top officials, including Premier Li Peng, were embarrassed when the students on the streets deliberately turned a deaf car to their orders--something regarded as intolerable by China's patriarchs. Guns and blood make clear a "they-can-always-go-back-if-they-want-to" conclusion, and the lesson to be learned here is, "Don't push them too hard or they'll go wild...