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...week after Valentine's Day, but the spirit of the occasion was still happily reverberating for New York's Republican Senator ALFONSE D'AMATO. He called a press conference at a Manhattan restaurant not to discuss Whitewater or debate the balanced-budget amendment but to gush and blush, tell the world that he is in love and even sing a few bars of It's a Sin to Tell a Lie. The object of his affection is CLAUDIA COHEN, the multimillionairess ex-wife of Revlon chairman Ron Perelman and the current gossip correspondent for TV's Live with Regis...
...Harvard it's not fashionable to gush support, but it is to give money," Gordon adds. "At other places it's vice versa...
...Unlike Gush Khatif, a block of Jewish communities at the southern fringe of the Gaza Strip, home to most of the 4,000 Israeli settlers in the zone, Netzarim is in an area of dense Arab population on the outskirts of Gaza City. Down the road sits the Palestinian village of al-Mograka, whose residents chafe at the restrictions that Netzarim's presence imposes on them. "People will never accept the settlement here," says Nasr Azzam, who runs the local general store. "It is a strange body and a symbol of the occupation...
...atmosphere is tense inside Netzarim as well. Since Palestinian self-rule began last May, the settlers have been sending their children to school in Gush Khatif in a bulletproof bus. To avoid Arab villages, the vehicle chooses a route that adds an hour to what would be a 30-min. trip. On occasion the driver takes the direct route, but then the bus carries only armed male adults -- to assert the settlers' right, under the self-rule agreements, to travel the road. Netzarim's inhabitants do not complain much, however. "I don't live where it's comfortable," says teacher...
...since I'm graduating, and so on the verge of not belonging anymore, this editorial might gush a little about the place. Please bear with me. If you are a parent, then gushing is in order. If you are a classmate, try to understand that I was a non-gusher before--in the space of two weeks--35 job interviewers asked me why I liked Harvard. Here's what I came up with for their benefit...