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Many will choose to remember the doughty King mainly as a survivor. He succeeded to the Hashemite throne in 1952, at 16, and when he came home last week, at 63, he was the Middle East's longest-serving leader, a ruler of personal courage and political caution who navigated his country through the intrigues of the cold war to the consummation of peace with Israel...
...younger brother Hassan in the last six months of his life. His quiet but unflinching partnership with the West earned him little but trouble from other Arab states. Despite everything, his charisma and unwavering hope created a powerful bond with his subjects and made Jordan one of the Middle East's most respected nations...
Stability, prestige and peace for Jordan were Hussein's great achievements. But ever in search of a broader Middle East peace, last October he gamely left his hospital bed in Minnesota's Mayo Clinic to help break a deadlock in U.S.-sponsored negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. "If I had an ounce of strength," the dying King explained, "I would have done my utmost to be there, and to help in any way I can." For that perseverance in the name of peace--and for a lifetime of courage and moderation in a part of the world so lacking...
...animals, spreading our feathers like the cock of the rock and waiting for the nearest, who becomes the dearest. Would any bird really do? If Romeo had turned his head at the moment Juliet passed by, would another girl have turned his head just as easily? It is the east, and Hildegarde...
Valentine's Day has helped the Harvard SquareBody Shop recently become the thirdhighest-selling outlet on the East Coast, McMorrowsays. The busy men who pass by the store come inand say "Give me whatever you've got!" accordingto McMorrow...