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...mediation effort had been in trouble even before the Netanya carnage. Arafat's empty chair at Wednesday's Arab League summit signaled the Bush administration's failure to persuade Sharon to let the Palestinian leader travel to Beirut to lend his support to a Saudi proposal to normalize relations with Israel once it withdraws to its 1967 borders. And Arafat has been in no hurry either to take new action to rein in militants or sign on to a cease-fire plan his aides see as weighted in favor of the Israelis...
...Victoria; in efficient Guangzhou fashion, the postrevolution name change to the Victory Hotel glorified the communists while requiring a minimum of new letters. After the Second Opium War, Shamian became a foreign concession in 1860, and its pedestrian-friendly streets are lined by former consulates and trading offices that lend an aura of faded grandeur. If most of Guangzhou marches at triple time, gentrified Shamian ambles, stopping at bright, breezy caf? like Lucy's at 5 Shamian Nan Jie, tel: (86-20) 8187-4106, and the Rose Garden at 2 Shamian Nan Jie, tel: (86-20) 8192-2808, that linger...
...with strange malapropisms. To his worm pal he warns of the early bird: "He's a boid - and he's oily and he kraves a woim - ooy, l'il woim, l'il woim - I shudda and shiva for you." His bittersweet song of love goes, "There is a heppy lend...
...steadily avoided any clear explanation of which wages are just and which are “disgusting”—and the point has been forced, now that wages are high enough for some workers to accept them. Debates over $11 versus $14 don’t lend themselves to protest signs, and the rhetorical muddle has cost the campaign a great deal of political momentum, even as its central goal—an annually adjusted wage floor—remains unfulfilled...
...correspondent, covering stories from India to China. He says he wrote his meandering travelogue The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong (Knopf; 322 pages) for two reasons: to fill in some of the blanks from a career of writing in column inches, not manuscript pages, and to "lend some substance and meaning" to those two years in a Kentucky prison...