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...feeling of affection or affiliation.'' Arafat is just as sternly pragmatic. ''He is the boss, and without him, the accord will not work. He was my enemy, but he is a man who fulfills his commitments.'' After he grudgingly shook hands with Arafat on the White House lawn, Rabin said, ''Of all the hands in the world, it was not the hand I wanted or even dreamed of touching.'' Perhaps only a man so lacking in charm can be immune to it in others. A Scotch drinker and chain smoker, Rabin has never had a nickname, and there...
...friends the feeling that he has never been given the prominence in the annals of Israel that he deserves. Now, as an old soldier who has seen too much death, he wants to be remembered as a peacemaker. He went some distance toward that end on the White House lawn, where the man not known for eloquence delivered himself of an exhortation for the ages: ''Enough of blood and tears! Enough!'' Arafat is no less aware -- and no less the engineer -- of the historic role he is enacting. ''This is my destiny,'' he tells his visitors, not long before...
...choices. Neither peacemaking deal is complete. Extremists on all sides threaten to destroy the arrangements, which look at times like fragile shelters being nailed together in a high wind. The regions seem just as violent now as they did before Arafat and Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn, and before Mandela and De Klerk locked into their collaboration toward a new South African constitution. And yet. . . Peacemaking, like warmaking or courtship, depends upon exquisitely balanced, mysterious and usually unpredictable combinations of context, timing, luck, leadership, mood, personal needs, outside help and spending
...sixth-grader's second lobbying trip to Washington this year. With the dome of the Capitol building rising above her, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Hillary Clinton and John Kerry nearby, Walters stood on the West Lawn and explained why she opposed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: "The people who want to drill in the Refuge talk about all these fancy tools and technology they can use to get a little oil ten years from now," she said, in a louder, stronger voice than when she delivered the same speech to congressmen in the spring. (Before she spoke...
Former senator John R. Edwards called on students to join in his grassroots effort to fight poverty yesterday in a speech that was moved to the lawn outside the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) to accommodate a large turn-out. Approximately 850 students braved the cold to hear the former vice-presidential candidate, according to his spokeswoman, Kim Rubey...