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BOOK Crossing the Border By Kim Chernin oxford University Press $22.00, 328pp...
...tremendously absorbing new book, Crossing the Border, Kim Chernin unfolds the story of a fearless and impetuous young woman who leaves behind her husband and daughter in California and adventures to a border kibbutz in Israel on a dangerous journey for escape and fulfillment. This wild young woman is none other than Chernin herself. The author claims that the harrowing events to 1971 transformed her so completely, that, in the book, Kim Chernin must call herself "dhe." Straddling the border between autobiography and fiction is not Chernin's only manipulation of her intriguing title in this rich and multi-layered...
Whether psychology or economics, one thing is clear. Ames represents a new kind of spy, not the type that James Bond movies of John Le Carre novels are made of. Neither is he a Kim Philby or a Jonathan Jay Pollard--no complex web of ideological motivations bore on his act of treason...
...singles players are Meringoff (1), junior Andrew Rueb (2), Burroughs (3), junior Umesha Wallooppillai (4), sophomore Daniel Chung (5) and freshman Mitty Arnold (6). Senior Adam Meister and sophomore Howard Kim are mainstays in the doubles matches, pairing up with the singles players...
...there's the bargain waiting to be struck. If the North is really more interested in getting rich than in making war, Clinton has a second chance to get it right. Assuming he finesses the current crisis, the President should learn the central lesson before other bad actors follow Kim's lead. The U.S. should actively engage the world's other rogue states before it's too late -- no matter the know-nothings whose knee-jerk reaction to creative diplomacy is to cry appeasement. It won't always work. It didn't with Iraq. But peace prospects grow as fewer...