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Even something as simple as food shopping has become a duel between occupier and occupied. The uprising's leaders set opening hours for stores, usually three a day, and frequently call full strikes. But the army is determined to rule commerce and now often shutters shops in reprisal for days at a time. Schools have been closed for five months, leaving children to stay home or join the stone throwers in the streets. With few jobs in the West Bank and resistance to working in Israel itself, most men spend their days idly ( meeting on street corners. A Jalazun laborer...
...television lights glared, the survivors of the first round of France's presidential election faced each other last week in a 2-hr. 20-min. debate watched by some 30 million citizens. Billed as the high point of the electoral campaign, the duel between Socialist President Francois Mitterrand and Neo- Gaullist Premier Jacques Chirac produced no clear-cut winner. The dislike was almost palpable, however, between the two men who had been cohabiting, in French parlance, as government leaders for the past two years. During an exchange in which each candidate attempted to suggest that the other was soft...
...second-round duel with Chirac got under way, Mitterrand's task was still daunting. He had to push Chirac as far toward Le Pen as possible in the hope that many of Barre's 5 million center-right supporters would turn to the Socialist but moderate-sounding President. The pollsters carefully spelled out the arithmetic of Mitterrand's task. From the environmentalist, Communist and fringe Marxist parties, they calculated, Mitterrand could expect to add 13.5 percentage points to his first-round score. Total...
There are cinematic scene shifts, striking tableaux and, too late to help, affecting moments for Macduff and the wife and son whom he unknowingly abandons to their murder. At the end, Macbeth and Macduff duel in silhouette, then tumble behind a row of soldiers, so there is momentary doubt about who felled whom. But surely almost everyone knows the plot: such pseudo surprise is no substitute for the deeper astonishment of fresh insight into two of the great archetypes in world drama...
...pond has melted by now (the modern indoor ice rink has long since replaced it), but as Ivy League hockey nears the 100th anniversary of the first Brown-Harvard ice duel, what was then a friendly game of ice polo has emerged as one of the most successful NCAA programs in the Ivies...