Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stand out as much as it should. Director Paul Daigneault should have toned down his actors. Throughout the show their words are too high-pitched and we miss out on the natural range that we expect in human interactions. We only rarely catch the more subtle manifestations of grief and helplessness...
Terrorism or no, the surge of grief for Rabin and emotional support for his cause cannot continue long at its present intensity. When it ebbs, Peres will again have to face the fact that Israel is a nation sharply and closely divided. The Yediot Aharonot poll shows that three-quarters of the public favors the peace process at the moment, but over the long run nearly half have expressed opposition...
...seemed almost literally unthinkable. The assassin had apparently been driven by the simplistic idea that if he could kill this one man, he could kill the whole process of peace. The true tragedy would be if he were proved right, and so the nation's grief was charged as well with the fear that something even more profound than one man's life had been ended. In the aftermath, Israelis seemed to be asking themselves, "What kind of a people have we become? What rot has infested our national soul...
Rabin's departure has profound implications for the entire Middle East, since he was the Israeli who made rapprochement possible. Was his removal sufficient to still the process? The early consensus was that it was not. But no one really knows how long shared grief will paper over Israel's deep division over the wisdom of giving up land for promises of peace...
...disguising a downtown trading floor as a nondescript storage room during audits by Federal Reserve regulators. But no sooner had the Feds left than the traders reappeared--led by Toshihide Iguchi. It was his dual role as chief bond trader and bookkeeper that ultimately brought the bank to grief by enabling him to rack up $1.1 billion in undisclosed losses from 1984 until his scheme came to light this past summer...