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...learned at home and with his knowledge of Lebanese soccer scores. During one tense negotiation some years ago, an Arab leader broke into a string of expletives, which his translator diplomatically glossed over. Habib sat upright, his face split into a wide grin, and he roguishly wagged his finger at the Arab. Said he: "I don't know much Arabic, but I sure do know those words." The Arab leader laughed, warmed by Habib's directness. Pierre Gemayel, leader of Lebanon's Phalange Party, says: "Habib's Lebanese roots enable him to understand the unique complexities...
...injuries. But when days lost by illness are included, the average woman is away from work 10% more than the average man. Women do have shorter hospital stays, but they also are hospitalized 40% more often. Says Robert Waldron, ACLI spokesman: "We haven't lifted a finger, covertly or in any setting, to oppose ERA. Indeed, a great many people in the business support...
...Tsongas of Massachussetts asked Begin whether Israel had used U.S.-made cluster bombs in Lebanon, despite an earlier promise not to employ those deadly weapons in offensive operations, Begin replied that he did not know. Tsongas found that hard to believe. Senator Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, jabbing his finger at Begin, warned that U.S. support for Israel was eroding. Begin shouted back: "Don't threaten us with cutting off aid to give up our principles...
...voters (54%) see Reagan as often getting his facts and figures wrong in public statements; 51% are critical of his progress toward fulfilling his campaign pledge to balance the federal budget. Reagan, however, has escaped blame for the delays in formulating a 1983 budget: 55% pointed an accusing finger toward Capitol Hill, while only 20% faulted...
Eakins is the greatest realist painter America has so far produced. He never successfully idealized a subject. When theatrical, which he rarely was, he tended to look silly. He was pragmatic, cussed, inquisitive, thoroughgoing, relentlessly observant, and plain of pictorial speech: a Yankee to the last finger bone. He was so in love with the specific that one scholar managed to compute, from the sun's angle, the time and date of the scene depicted in one of his paintings of rowers training on the Schuylkill, The Pair-Oared Shell; they went under the bridge, give or take...