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Looking confident and relaxed, Sadat inspected an Israeli honor guard and shook hands with an astonishing array of Israeli dignitaries. Among those on the receiving line: former Premiers Yitzhak Rabin and Golda Meir. Sadat greeted her with delight: "Madame, I have waited a long time to meet you." He smiled broadly when introduced to Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan?Israel's great hero of the 1967 Six-Day War?and was particularly eager to meet Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, who commanded Israel's Sinai forces in the 1973 October War. "I planned to catch you across the canal," said Sadat...
...parading Santayana's maxim about the uses of history; instead, he deflates it: "Those who remember the past are condemned to repeat it too." He preaches no sermons, draws no morals, enters no ideological disputes. He simply suggests that some stories must be told-not because they will delight and instruct but because they happened...
...wind licked Dartmouth Street aimlessly, twirling bits of paper across the sidewalk. Pedestrians shivered and hurried as the shadows grew longer; the afternoon was fading fast. The guests hurried into the gallery to luminous landscapes, restrained delight and canapes. Baudelaire, whose art criticism could be as sparse and illuminating as his poetry was scented with opiate-rich darkness, would have enjoyed the scene. For here, in this glass-fronted room glowing out of the duck of Boston, the sophisticates peered and exclaimed much as they would have a century or more ago at the opening of a Paris Salon. While...
...needed a final round of 78 to win, and staggered to an 82. In 1936 H.B. Martin wrote: "There is no more flagrant case of miscarried justice than in the story of MacDonald Smith, youngest of the Smith clan and the most brilliant...Dame Fate took a particular delight in mocking his genius, encouraging him with lesser prizes but always refusing his demand for stellar honors...
...alliance was still favored by 52% of the voters. Many of them anticipated the split. Several polls have shown that a majority thought the Communists and Socialists would probably not get along in a coalition government, even though they wanted the left to come to power anyway. To the delight of centrists and right-wing politicians, the quarreling partners went out of their way last week to emphasize their differences. The Communist daily L'Humanité issued a special 6 million-copy supplement blaming the Socialists for the split; an editorial accused Mitterrand's party of denying workers...