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...that historic September day on the White House lawn, Rabin warned Jews is the Diaspora that this peace process would not be so easy. It is not for any Jew to support Yasser Arafat in any endeavor. However, Arafat needs Western money and political support in order to create a viable democracy for the Palestinians. If the duly elected government of Israel can allocate millions of dollars to Arafat for this purpose, then the least we can do at Harvard is grant him a podium from which to make his plea for help and ignore the ravings of obstructionists such...
...begets peace, that through death we bring life, and so on. By this logic, the Yitzhak Rabin who led Israel's army to triumph in the Six Day War shares everything but tactics with the Yitzhak Rabin who shook the hand of Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn. The warrior and the conciliator form two sides of the same soul, seeking one result...
Third, Harvard really needs to exercise greater control over its lawn sprinklers. To begin with, if you happen to be standing in the wrong place when the sprinklers turn on, you're likely to find a stream of water aimed right at your crotch. And even if you're lucky enough to come upon the sprinklers after they're already on, you may still have to run a gauntlet to get where you're going. You'd think that the Administration would realize that there is no point to watering the asphalt...
Though Democrats continued their attacks with a blitz of legislative delaying tactics and more high-publicity counterhearings on the lawn of the Capitol, the Senate Finance Committee approved the basic G.O.P. blueprint for overhauling Medicare and Medicaid. House Democrats unveiled a much less sweeping $90 billion cut in Medicare (the G.O.P. proposes $270 billion) that would essentially keep the system intact but reduce payments to hospitals and doctors. Meanwhile, a Congressional Budget Office analysis showed that the privatization option in the G.O.P.'s plans may not save as much as anticipated...
...Senate Republicans unveiled a similar plan. But the G.O.P.'s decision to hold short and swift hearings on the $182 billion cost-savings plan--as well as on the even more controversial G.O.P. Medicare overhaul--prompted a full-scale rebellion by Democrats, who held alternative "hearings" on the lawn of the Capitol. The party leadership vowed to use every stalling tactic at its disposal to prevent the plans from being rammed through...