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...This document is virtual, but all of us are real, and our heartbeats are real." YOSSI BEILIN, former Israeli Justice Minister, on the proposed Geneva Accord, a detailed plan for peace in the Middle East, spearheaded by him and his Palestinian counterpart, a former Information and Culture Minister, Yasser Abed Rabbo...
Writing a story, or a newspaper column—to some extent, any creative effort—is a solitary practice, an attempt to take an internal impression and document it. Regardless of the subject—ourselves, our families, strangers, nature—the process of creating turns our focus relentlessly inward: to pinpoint, as precisely as possible, the dimensions of this impression, the color and the shape, so that we can faithfully reproduce it and our creations ring true. The more I thought about it, the more it seemed that all this time I’ve spent...
Last week's unofficial Geneva Accord outlining a peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians sparked controversy on both sides. Hardliners accused the dealmakers of selling out their respective sides: the Israeli negotiators were accused of undermining their own government, while Palestinians decried the document's abandonment of Palestinian refugees' right of return to land inside Israel proper. The Bush Administration seems to be supporting the deal if only to pressure Israel, as Secretary of State Colin Powell met with the drafters despite complaints by Israel. What do you think? Is the plan worth U.S. support if only to restart...
...Council, announced the new scheme. In effect, Bremer has junked the plan for Iraqi self-rule that he unveiled last summer. Under the original proposal, the council, made up of Iraqi notables appointed by the U.S., was to propose how a constitution might be drafted by December. After the document was written, it would be ratified in a referendum, and only then would a sovereign Iraqi government be elected. The whole process could have taken up to four years. In recent weeks, however, it had become plain that the council would not meet the December deadline, which had been enshrined...
Moving briskly through the history of Boston street performance—dwelling fondly on the halcyon days of the Music Under Boston program, which promoted subway performance until 1986—Baird began discussing the terms of the new Subway Performers Program, describing the document as “full of contradictions and slander...