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Well, it's a failure of the coalition. It was just a question of time before it fell because of a challenge from the right flank. I could have kept the government had I submitted to the terms posed to me from my right wing, which said that if I would tear up Oslo and the Wye accord they would stay. I refused, and equally I refused subsequent conditions from the left that said I [should] go ahead and implement Oslo regardless of Palestinian violations and no matter what violence the Palestinians perpetrate...
...never excluded consideration of anyone" based on race). His natural ideological allies are the sort of Republicans who favor Clinton's conviction. But court watchers say he has moved toward the center over the years, partly due to the arrival of other conservatives who can hold down the right flank...
...Shahak is no Colin Powell. The former chief of the Israeli army who formally declared his candidacy for Prime Minister Wednesday may look like a new broom to those tired of the traditional Likud-Labor divide, but that could be wishful thinking. ?Politically Shahak would be on the left flank of the Labor Party,? says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. ?Israel?s generals tend to be more left-wing than its politicians. That could be because they know the horror of war, but it could also reflect the dominance of the kibbutz movement in the upper echelons...
...light shone out between red velvet curtains. It and the musical prelude could have gone on for three hours, and I would not have missed the opera. Three violins and a phat viola fiddled while Nero was ostensibly still in the dressing room. They made up the feisty, devilish flank of the Early Music Society Orchestra, balanced by a quietly attentive harp and two awfully long lutes (allegedly a "chitarrone" and a "theorbo") on the right, with two harpsichords rammed together in the middle like poorly parked flagships...
Freshman Nick Lenicheck sparked the first goal with some nifty footwork on the left flank eight minutes into the game. He cut the ball back on his defender just inside of the sideline and then found junior Armando Petruccelli free at the top of the 18-yard box. From there, Harvard's leading scorer smashed home his seventh goal of the season...