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Grant, who can soon be seen in Sirens and Bitter Moon, is every inch the blithe aristocrat. MacDowell imports her Groundhog Day sweetness to a role that is more a fantasy than a character. And Rowan Atkinson has a cute turn as a tongue-tied cleric. Richard Curtis (The Tall Guy, Blackadder) has stocked his script with transatlantic gags (How many times has Carrie had sex? "Less than Madonna, more than Lady Di"). The movie strains a bit to prove it's all a lark, but because the mood is cunningly sunny, and the cast is so relaxed...
...phoned Arafat in Tunis and said, "I am ashamed as an Israeli that such a horrible incident took place here." That was an astonishing expression from the icily reserved Rabin, especially given his never concealed loathing for the P.L.O. chief. Politicians on the don't-give-the-Arabs-an-inch Israeli right also spoke in tones of sorrow and repentance. "It's a crime, a terrible crime, and I condemn it totally," said Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, which has said that if it returns to power it will not abide by the agreement for Palestinian self-rule...
...more often the songs are just odd enough to hold your interest, just ordinary enough to succeed in addressing everyday life, and, above all, catchy and well-constructed. This is a CD you could play five times in a row without offending your roommates and without getting even an inch bored with most of the songs; the undulating opening riff of the first song, "This Is Not My Flag," ought to follow you out the door and down the street if you, or your roommates, have any appreciation at all for well-made, unpretentious, unoriginal melody-driven guitar...
With so much to gain and with the support of the United States and most of the world, why would Israel ever feel the need to give an inch of land to the Palestinians beyond the tiny Gaza-Jericho areas already agreed upon? Indeed, it is my opinion that regardless of the Declaration of Principles, Israel has not and will not change its plans to keep building Jewish settlements or be in control of the Occupied Territories...
...walked 400 miles on foot--every inch," Barrett says. "I did not feel qualified to run for governor until I walked across the state; there were whole cities I'd never spent more than passing car time...