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...David Shulman, a Hebrew University professor of Tamil language and culture who is an activist of Ta'ayush, which defends Palestinians from settlers who destroy their olive groves. "We're worn out," says Shulman. "The right wing has sold to the Israeli public [former Prime Minister] Ariel Sharon's foolish idea that there are no partners among the Palestinians." Until that changes - until Israel is prepared to talk to its Palestinian adversaries, and they are prepared to listen - the fighting is bound to continue...
...discord surrounding Wyeth made that seem a little foolish. Is it really possible to “capture the heart of America?” You can make the argument that, if anyone could, Wyeth did. He took for his subject none other than the great American landscape. His subjects were plainspoken farmers, windswept grasses, people who worked hard and took pride in sacrifice. You know, Amurricans...
Everything he did that March 4 conveyed confidence and a break from what he called foolish tradition. Following a hot-dog lunch at the White House, the new President, in holiday mood, beamed indiscriminately as Al Smith, cowboy star Tom Mix and six miles of jubilant Democrats paraded past his reviewing stand. Just a day after a decidedly unpleasant Red Room tea with the Hoovers, Roosevelt returned to the same room to greet 13 children on crutches, emissaries of hope from Warm Springs, Ga. Declaring, "It is my intention to inaugurate precedents like this from time to time," he looked...
...older you get, we often naturally assume, the wiser you become. Decade upon decade of experience - victories and failures alike - grant each of us oodles of life lessons to pass on to that foolish, fresh-faced younger generation. Or so we think. Author Henry Alford embarked upon a journey to discover whether this is actually true, interviewing scores of people - some celebrities like playwright Edward Albee and literary greybeard Harold Bloom, others just plain ole old folks, such as the 75-year old Katrina survivor whose story brings the author to tears. Along the way, Alford's 79-year...
Other observers agree. "Talk of possible war in Bosnia today is foolish and irresponsible" says former OHR official Gerald Knaus, who now heads the European Stability Initiative, a Berlin-based think-tank. "There is no more chance of war in Bosnia today than there is in Cyprus or Belgium." Knaus blames the current troubles on the "irresponsible political elites." That political accomodation that allowed the war to end 13 years ago, however, will continue to roil the country's politics for the foreseeable future. Knaus sees no easy way out of the Serb-Bosniak stalemate. "No miraculous constitutional reform plan...