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Rivkind, a tall, exuberant man with curly gray hair, thinks back on Qawasbeh's stay at Hadassah as he moves through the crowded E.R. wearing bloody scrubs a few hours after last week's bombing. "The guy's a terrorist, one hundred percent, but I don't care," he says. Hadassah, Rivkind pledges, will help the Palestinian get a permit to cross the checkpoint. --With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem
Winners and losers are all too clearly defined in today's movies. Peck's best films always found thoughtful shades of gray. Atticus has taken on the case of a black man accused of raping a white woman--a perilous assignment in an Alabama town in the 1930s. He argues his case brilliantly, demolishes the opposition, convinces each member of the movie audience...and loses. But Atticus has shown courage in the fight. As he leaves the courtroom in defeat, a black preacher attending the trial whispers a command to Atticus' 6-year-old daughter. "Miss Jean Louise, stand...
...other. Ridley speculated that it may be the way our minds work that has sustained this perennial debate. It has been true that when we analyze body and mind or determinism and free will, we tend to create dichotomies where none exist. It is often hard to see the gray areas between the false extremes that we have come to believe are real. ALLAN SALTZMAN Hamden, Conn...
...person Dyer least wants to be is himself, a fact that he makes brutally clear as he describes staring into a mirror to find "the awful reality?gray hair, bulbous nose, scrawny neck. It was as if all the hidden misery of my life had suddenly manifested itself." Only when faced with his essential self, and the realization that sex, drugs and travel have not brought him any closer to the Zone, does he catch a fleeting glimpse of his Holy Grail in the Roman ruins of Libya's Leptis Magna. "Immediately there was the sense?which...
Just a few weeks after it started to get noticed, the campaign to recall California Governor Gray Davis has gone from being a nettlesome political problem to a real threat to his survival. Organizers of the recall say they have collected more than 500,000 of the 900,000 signatures necessary to qualify for a recall election. "The odds of the recall qualifying have increased to the point of near certainty," says Republican consultant Dan Schnur. And a Democrat strategist acknowledged: "Several people around [Davis] are of the assumption that they have to prepare as if it is going...