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...solution to the eternal Palestinian problem. And the crisis demonstrates that Israel is no longer necessarily the No. 1 U.S. priority and the top U.S. strategic ally in the region. Ensuring the flow of oil has become an even more sharply perceived vital American interest, and the friendship of the Saudis and Egyptians accordingly seems all the more significant. One illustration: when Bush last week promised, Congress willing, to forgive Egypt's $7 billion military debt to the U.S., Israel could only wail, How come you're willing to do that for Cairo and not to erase our $4.6 billion...
...never appreciate in this country the particular eminence that Ed had in Japan. He was the only one who really spoke and read and wrote Japanese. He was a great symbol of friendship and understanding," Fairbank said...
Rolling unchallenged down the empty superhighway Kuwait had built -- as a token of friendship with Iraq -- to link the two countries, the troops made the 37 miles to the capital, Kuwait City, in just four hours. "It was chaos in the streets," said Stephanie McGehee, a photographer who witnessed the attack. Panicked residents tried to flee south toward Saudi Arabia, but the Iraqis forced people out of their autos and angrily ripped out car phones -- no rarity in a country with so many wealthy citizens -- presumably because they could be used to communicate troop positions...
...spent reading the gossips, days whiled away worrying about seating plans. The phone is a tactical weapon. A night at home alone induces existential dread, and success for someone like Colacello is measured not simply in invitations secured but also in invitations to events from which Warhol is excluded. Friendship seems to be beside the point; in a moment of accidental insight, Colacello remarks of the clot of people around Warhol that they wanted to go out with Andy, not home with...
Once they obtain the job, clerks enter into an intimate family. The Justices tend to return the loyalty and friendship they demand of their young assistants. O'Connor, for example, takes an active interest in the personal lives of her clerks, sometimes makes lunch for them, even invites them home for Thanksgiving. Brennan always liked to mix business and pleasure over daily , freewheeling breakfast chats with his clerks. So does Justice Harry Blackmun. "He's a real baseball fan," remembers New York University law professor Vicki Been, "so there's a lot of talk about the previous day's scores...