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...fact that conference delegates from both sides are now concentrating on issues rather than format--as they did during the first round of the talks, in Madrid--is "a major shift onto new tracks," Levy said...
...with sadistic guignol, all done at the highest level of skill and conviction. Surprisingly, given the enormous reputation Ribera had in his day, this is the first comprehensive exhibition of his work ever held in America, or for that matter in Europe (it was previously shown in Naples and Madrid). It rounds off the series of shows by Spanish artists of the 17th and 18th centuries -- Murillo, Zurbaran, Velazquez, Goya and now lo Spagnoletto, "the Little Spaniard," as Ribera was known to his Italian admirers -- designed to close gaping holes in our collective art-historical knowledge, and to make concrete...
...crisp autumn day last year Palestinian negotiators returned home from the opening of Middle East peace talks in Madrid to a rousing welcome from their once skeptical constituents. Thousands of Palestinians lined the streets in the West Bank city of Jericho, waving olive branches and whooping with joy. It seemed that finally the Palestinian masses had embraced the idea of bargaining -- instead of fighting -- for their future...
THREE OF THE MOST POWERFUL EARTHQUAKES EVER to hit the U.S. -- each topping 8.0 on the Richter scale -- struck near the town of New Madrid, Missouri, in the early 1800s. It is hardly an obvious location. The theory of plate tectonics says quakes should happen most often along the edges of crustal plates, pancakes of rock a few score miles thick and thousands of miles across, which carry the continents on their backs as they slide across the semimolten mantle below. The plates ride over each other or grind together, and the earth shakes. But New Madrid is right...
Journalists have long joked that the headline MIDEAST PEACE HOPES DIM could run over a story written today, next year or, probably, in A.D. 2030. That may no longer be the case. As the intermittent Israeli-Arab talks that began in Madrid 10 months ago resumed in Washington, Palestinians and representatives of Israel's new Labor-led government got down to serious discussions over a substantive matter: how a proposed elected council might be empowered to bring a measure of self-government to the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Eager to tone down animosity, Jerusalem's negotiators have...