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FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM by Thomas L. Friedman...
...years as a journalist in Lebanon and Israel taught Thomas L. Friedman two important lessons. "First, when it comes to discussing the Middle East, people go temporarily insane, so if you are planning to talk to an audience of more than two, you'd better have mastered the subject. Second, a Jew who wants to make a career working in or studying about the Middle East will always be a lonely man: he will never be fully accepted or trusted by the Arabs, and he will never be fully accepted or trusted by the Jews...
...fifth singles, freshman Jennifer Minkus destroyed Becky Friedman, 6-3, 6-3, and senior Nicole Rival stormed to a 6-4, 6-0 triumph over Chris Gardner...
TRUE paleo-conservatism has, as Dostoevsky explained, compassion and a sense of responsibility for "the insulted and the injured." It is not the callous libertarianism of Milton Friedman, Robert Nozick or Margaret Thatcher, which lends itself well to upper-class twittery and renunciations of social responsibility...
...deficit is no longer a menace because it has shrunk from more than 6% of the gross national product in 1983 to about 3% right now. That is lower than the level of deficit spending during 1975-76, for example, when the gap was widened by a recession. Friedman says he accepts the deficit because it has restrained federal spending. "Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils," he says. While Friedman admits that "mine is not the majority view," he adds, "Everybody looks at the world through his own glasses, and those glasses mean more than...