Word: eves
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...eve of the Jewish Sabbath last Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres felt the moment was right for a glass of Yardin champagne. Israelis consider this their finest drink, and Peres was convinced that nothing but the best would do, given what was about to occur. Earlier in the week, he had seen his peacemaking stance with the Palestinians pay off when the P.L.O. changed its charter, removing passages that denied Israel's right to exist. Now, the Prime Minister had a settlement to celebrate on a second front. He and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher were preparing...
...have long been known: at the time of his appointment, he represented the very company, International Paper, that helped cause the removal of the first special counsel because it had sold land to the Whitewater Development Corp.; he has ties to groups bent on defeating Clinton; and on the eve of his appointment, he was considering filing an amicus brief in support of Paula Jones' right to sue the President...
...might be the politically smart thing to do as elections approach, says Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer: "The pullout from Hebron is certainly going to entail the necessity of cracking down on fanatical settlers who live there and it will be a very ugly picture to have on the eve of Israeli elections," says Beyer. The pullout plan described in the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement requires Israeli soldiers to leave Palestinian neighborhoods and redeploy in Jewish enclaves. Today only 450 Jews live in a city of 94,000 Palestinians, but that number could grow if hard-line candidate Benjaman Netanyahu...
...second reason for opposing reform is that faculty members would have to deal with disruptions to their lives. For instance, one argument held that changing the calendar would require professors to grade fall-term finals on Christmas Eve. But this problem could be solved by simply making grades due a week later. In short, calendar reform would benefit students with little long-term detriment to the faculty...
...mistresses. But it would be a mistake to suppose that we know much about her from these pictures, where her impregnability is the plainest thing about her. For Callahan she's the human conundrum at the heart of the world. Lounging naked in a bower, she's the Eve in his Garden. Emerging from water with her eyes shut, her hair dripping and her breasts just visible beneath the surface, she's everything that's inward looking, tantalizing and self-contained...