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...Thatcher, widely known as one of the most hawkish voices in her inner circle, the Cabinet member said that "Margaret's heart may be telling her to leap into the fray, but her head is telling her that you cannot militarily operate in the Southern Hemisphere without U.S. explicit or implicit support...
...very long time." He is convinced that Egypt is prepared to pursue the Palestinian autonomy negotiations as outlined in the Camp David accords. Israel favors this course not only because it involves the U.S. as a full partner but be cause the Camp David agreement says nothing explicit about Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza - an omission that is a tribute of sorts to Begin's tough bargaining at Camp David. In a letter to Begin two weeks ago, President Reagan reaffirmed Washington's commitment to achieving "full autonomy" for the Palestinians within a "Self-Governing...
...ties that they formerly enjoyed with Egypt if Mubarak would endorse their position on the Palestinians, which would include a restoration of Arab sovereignty to the remaining occupied territories. But this Mubarak cannot do, since he is committed to the Camp David agreement and, through it, to a less explicit concept of Palestinian autonomy. Thus, while it is possible for Mubarak to improve his ties with the other Arabs, he cannot, for the moment at least, achieve a genuine reconciliation...
What camouflages these similarities is the style in which they are framed. The English imply everything, including their constitution; Americans feel compelled to be explicit. This is why an Englishman can make a lie sound like the truth, while an American will do the opposite; it's all in the vowels. Stylistically the difference between the two countries is the difference between Rex Harrison and Gary Cooper-a difference that is generally played to the hilt by both sides so that they may simultaneously find each other quaint and horrifying, each regarding his counterpart as if he had never...
...because it can only think in limited terms. Hubert Dreyfus, a philosophy professor at Berkeley, observes that "all aspects of human thought, including nonformal aspects like moods, sensory-motor skills and long-range self-interpretations, are so interrelated that one cannot substitute an abstractable web of explicit beliefs for the whole cloth of our concrete everyday practice." Marianne Moore saw the web her own way: "The mind is an enchanting thing,/ is an enchanted thing/ like the glaze on a/ katydid-wing/ subdivided by sun/ till the nettings are legion,/ Like Gieseking playing Scarlatti." In short, human intelligence...