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...members worldwide, which serves as an umbrella for the P.L.O. as well as for nonmilitary and nonterrorist organizations. Never mind that Said has always urged the P.L.O. to seek the conference table, not the car bomb; or that, to the U.S. government, the P.N.C. and the P.L.O. were wholly distinct. For the Israeli right and its American supporters they were one and the same thing. Thus in 1988, at the height of the Israeli crackdown in occupied Palestine, when Secretary of State George Shultz proposed talking to Said and another Palestinian-American professor, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, to discuss his Middle...
...arranging and conducting the interviews have personal perspectives on affairs in South Africa. Karsten Prager, managing editor of TIME International, hadn't been in South Africa since 1991, and noticed a change in the political climate: "One comes away from conversations with De Klerk and Mandela with the distinct sense that somehow, sometime, South Africa will be able to resolve its conflicts peacefully." MacLeod recalls that a few months ago, Mandela visited him at home and bounced the bureau chief's infant daughter on his knee. Says MacLeod: "I told Mandela that although South Africa had been a troubled country...
...marriage? For it. Abortion rights? Pro. Gays in the military? Sooner, not later. In short, Kennedy says he keeps his personal faith distinct from his political beliefs...
...Mehren says two distinct groups of students existed at the College in his time: one which came for the academics, and others "that were here primarily for family reasons." But today, he says, the groups have largely merged into...
These cloth shells also have their distinct grace. Several figures of circus performers, riding on iron-wire wheels, refer to Giacometti's famous charioteer and, through that, back to common sources in Etruscan antiquity; the precarious poise of the acrobat's body is part of Abakanowicz's general imagery of human vulnerability and risk...