Word: fictions
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...peace process, and I often find myself wondering, What does a successful peace deal typically require? A third-party intermediary who's firm, fair and impartial? A master negotiator? A dogged communicator with a sense of humor? Or does it need the kind of timing that exists only in fiction? It needs not only all the above but also a measure of foresight, so that a solution, any solution, is permanent. An Arab-Israeli peace today is ripe for the picking, so ripe that waiting will almost guarantee it will rot and fall off the tree...
...guess, but we also thought the Israelis would never agree to sit face to face with Arafat. Imagine our astonishment when we saw Arafat on the lawn of the White House! Clinton now calls him "my friend"! Madeleine Albright kisses him on the cheek! That's the work of fiction...
...journalist, both as a reporter for the London Sunday Times and as editor of that paper's much acclaimed Insight investigative team. He has also co-authored six nonfiction books with such titles as The Cocaine Wars and War in the Falklands. If truth is stranger than fiction, then Eddy has clearly witnessed firsthand a lot of strange stuff. Why then has he now decided to write fiction? Has he seen some things it would be prudent to disguise...
...party of the week went once again to the Creative Coalition, which packed 'em in at the Beverly Hills mansion of onetime penniless actor and now producer (think "Pulp Fiction" and "Good Will Hunting") Lawrence Bender at a fund-raiser for Christopher Reeve's Paralysis Foundation. VIP guests paid a hefty $10,000 to take home party favors packed with Kenneth Cole watches and wallets and to rock with Melissa Etheridge. Her three-song set had actor Harry Hamlin and lip-luscious wife Lisa Rinna dancing in the grass while wine and rum flowed and trays of shrimp and goat...
...because I'm not alone, I have a recourse when sleep or work gets in the way. I just pop over to the bulletin boards and fan sites for a quick update. At members-only well.com a science-fiction writer named Martha Soukup posts dozens of updates a day with court-reporter accuracy. For more heated debate, I head over to the "Big Brother-USA" message boards on realworldblows.com the live chats on AOL or the Big Brother Table Talk discussion at salon.com...