Word: focusing
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...What a U.S. President can do," Obama added, "is apply sustained energy and focus on the issues of the Israelis and the Palestinians. And I do believe that the Israelis and the Palestinians are going to both have to make compromises in order to arrive at that two-state solution...
...Israelis are hesitant to make a deal while noting the economic plight of the Palestinians that only exacerbates the situation. "It's difficult for either side to make the bold move that would bring about peace," said Obama. "There's a tendency for each side to focus on the faults of the other rather than look in the mirror...
...next year. New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino, Judiciary Committee chairman, has introduced an impeachment resolution, which a subcommittee is now considering. The Constitution makes it difficult to remove any judge. If a House majority votes to impeach, action would move to the Senate, where Claiborne would become the focus of the nation's first impeachment trial in 50 years...
...recent years is George Balanchine's maxim, ''Ballet is woman.'' People respond to it heartily: for once, someone on the inside had the guts to state the obvious. Though some of the greatest stars, from Nijinsky to Baryshnikov, have been men, women carry the art form, providing its focus as well as much of its mystery. The appearance of a new, genuine ballerina is one of the exciting events in the theater. Of course she does not materialize overnight. Years of steely determination and self-denial precede the epiphany, and serious dance fans have been following her every step...
...rock-'n'-soul kings, the Neville Brothers. Gyrating happily on the dance floor to the improvised mix of music was Joan Baez. This nightly ritual was the after-hours afterglow of the first-ever rock- 'n'-roll caravan for human rights, a six-city rolling tour of rockers, to focus U.S. attention on the victims of political persecution and torture around the world. Staged by Amnesty International to mark its 25th anniversary, the ''Conspiracy of Hope'' tour hopscotched across America by chartered 707 jet with the aforementioned lot, plus Sting and Canadian Rocker Bryan Adams, along with assorted one-night...