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...youth his piano lesson prove fruitless. Describing a metronome, Frank reveals its menacing control over his mental state: "You will do this again and again and again, you will never get it right..." Later many trying or emotional moments are similarly encapsulated...
...Israel over the issue of building settlements in the occupied territories. But the Bush Administration went much further last week, not by using stronger language but by breaking one of the oldest taboos in Washington's patron relationship with Jerusalem; it used money as a cudgel. After two fruitless days in Jerusalem, Secretary of State James Baker made clear that Washington did not intend to grant Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir the full $10 billion in loan guarantees he has requested to help accommodate an expected 1 million Soviet Jewish emigres. More important, Baker implied that the U.S. would not grant...
...goods do not threaten their way of life. Most Penan hunters still prefer blowpipes to guns, and a group of headmen insists that if Western goods disappeared, their longhouses could get along just fine so long as the forest remained. This is why after years of arrests, imprisonment and fruitless legal efforts to halt the logging, the Penans continue to blockade the timber roads. "If we die," says Nyelik, "we die in the forest. There is no other place...
Baker's wanderings were not completely fruitless. He did manage to squeeze out of Israel an agreement that might finesse the problem of who would represent the Palestinians in talks. Israel has refused to sit down with Palestinians from East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed in 1967, or with those from the occupied territories who have ties with the Palestine Liberation Organization. But now the Israelis have acquiesced to a joint Jordanian- Palestinian delegation, giving rise to speculation that its members might include Palestinians living in Jordan who are originally from East Jerusalem or are linked to the P.L.O...
Murder, They Said. Three disk jockeys at Los Angeles radio station KROQ admitted that they had faked an on-air murder confession last June in a bid to boost ratings. The deejays watched police conduct a fruitless 10-month investigation before fessing up. Their minor penalty: a week...