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...request to continue at a later date. Anwar, who served six years in prison on a previous conviction of sodomy and abuse of power (which, he maintains, was politically motivated), claims that this new charge has been orchestrated by the Prime Minister, Najib Razak, in an attempt to end his career...
...that end, Shapiro talks with her old family rabbi, meditates, practices yoga and produces a memoir preciously divided into 102 tiny chapters loaded with mantras, definitions and people chatting over cups of herbal tea. The sense is of an essay padded to book length, but some of these miniatures work. A charmingly self-aware one describes the family car being struck by a bottle of salad dressing. Shapiro is taken aback; she had not put salad dressing on her list of fears...
...were ever to hear one in a movie, it would be as background music to a mysterious woman dancing in the twilight. By album No. 2, Devotion, that sound was so rigidly set that it seemed as if the duo had run slowly but beautifully into a dead end. Why mess with perfection...
...long as between the Jordan (River) and the [Mediterranean] Sea there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or nondemocratic," warned Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak last week. "If the Palestinians vote in elections it is a binational state, and if they don't vote it is an apartheid state...
Barak sounded his warning in the same week that South Africa marked the 20th anniversary of the decision by the then President F.W. De Klerk to free Nelson Mandela and begin negotiating an end to apartheid. It was certainly a courageous decision by De Klerk, but it's important to remember that it was not some epiphany about the immorality of apartheid that changed his mind. By 1989, with the Cold War essentially over, Pretoria had gotten the message that it could no longer count on U.S. support to head off sanctions and other international pressure in the name...