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...inability to accomodate and assimilate into the musical world as just another fabulous virtuoso underscores the torture of his life. Paradoxically enough, we see him craving the comforts of friendship and stability just as fiercely as he seeks solitude...
...symbolism surrounding Bill Clinton's witness-for-peace visit to the Middle East was almost too perfect. At the desert border crossing where he met Jordan's King Hussein and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to co-sign their treaty of friendship, the table was set up on an asphalt strip in the middle of a minefield. An area had been paved and fenced in specifically for the ceremony. "Walk 15 yards beyond that barbed wire," a U.S. Secret Service agent warned onlookers, "and you won't be coming back...
...trip began joyously with the moving ceremony formalizing peace between Israel and Jordan. Hussein and Rabin were notably warm to each other and to Clinton, and their heartfelt words bespoke an authentic friendship and respect. That heady afternoon built expectations of more good news; Israel especially hoped the President could find a way to speed up its glacial negotiations over the Golan Heights. But Clinton immediately ran up against Syria's President Hafez Assad...
Israel personifies none of Tracy's attributes on the ice save competitiveness, but the two managed to forge a valuable friendship, Tracy says, in spite of all public misperceptions to the contrary...
...book's main character is Esther Jackson, an African American who is a midlevel manager at a bank in downtown Los Angeles. It's a few months after the 1992 riots, and racial tensions are high; nonetheless, Jackson starts up a friendship with a white co-worker, Mallory Post. When, as part of a diversity program, a black man is hired to be the new boss of the bank, Esther is overjoyed, and she even fantasizes about having an interoffice fling with him. But her happiness turns to dismay when he is accused of sexually harassing Mallory...