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...subject of Christianity and Islam, and the truth of both. It was presumably the emperor himself who set down this dialogue, during the siege of Constantinople between 1394 and 1402; and this would explain why his arguments are given in greater detail than those of his Persian interlocutor. The dialogue ranges widely over the structures of faith contained in the Bible and in the Qur'an, and deals especially with the image of God and of man, while necessarily returning repeatedly to the relationship between - as they were called - three "Laws" or "rules of life": the Old Testament...
...will expect Abbas to deliver the release of some of its top political leaders recently detained by Israel as the price for any negotiations with Olmert, while Israel will demand security actions by the Palestinian Authority against the militants - which means Abbas may find himself serving simply as the interlocutor between Hamas and Olmert in the event of any talks, or promising things he's unable to deliver. Unable to secure Israeli movement toward a settlement based on the Arab League's Beirut principles, he may be hoping that Israel would at least release the hundreds of millions of dollars...
When I visited Iran a few years ago, my favorite question was, "Who runs this country?" The response often was nervous laughter, followed by a raised eyebrow, a shrug and a stage whisper: "The dark forces." My next question-"The dark forces?"-would elicit the weaving of my interlocutor's own fabulously intricate conspiracy theory. "It's very Persian," a young businessman told me. "We're very conspiracy-minded." So let's indulge ourselves and think like Persians about recent events in the Middle East. Here's my conspiracy theory: It starts with the fact that no one really does...
...bleak as it now looks, it's not entirely out of the question. The chances are greater in Lebanon, where there are actors with a clear interest in taming Hizballah. As in past flare-ups on the border, coming to terms will almost surely require a third-party interlocutor. "It could be the Red Cross or the Germans, the French, maybe a special adviser to Kofi Annan," says an Israeli intelligence official...
...structure—Eurydice comes to accept her reality and Orpheus rejects his, heightening the tension between the two characters, who don’t directly interact (except in scenes that take place in Orpheus’s imagination) until the final scene.Both characters have a sounding board and interlocutor who challenges them to let go of what they hold dear. For Orpheus, it is John, his manager, who periodically comes to his apartment bearing news of a world gone mad for lack of his music; for Eurydice, it is Persephone, who extols the virtues of impermanence and forgetfulness. Both...