Word: lawns
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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...
...place in Norway in early 1993, and after they achieved a breakthrough, Rabin wrote a note to Yasser Arafat informing him that Israel was prepared to recognize the P.L.O. and begin openly negotiating with it. The talks culminated in the historic signing of a peace accord on the South Lawn of the White House on Sept...
...moments of Israeli drama in which he took part, this, perhaps, is the one for which Rabin will be best remembered. As he stepped onto the lawn, he was clearly wrestling with the fact that by events of his own making, he was now being asked to shake the hand of Yasser Arafat, a man Israelis had reviled for decades for his role in planning, financing or inspiring hundreds of attacks on Jewish men, women and children. But despite the setting and the players and the audience (the world), perhaps what was most remarkable about the occasion was the expression...
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...