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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picture-book Chautauqua, New York, for each of three evenings before the debate, Clinton held a mock session with smooth-talking former Senator George Mitchell, who played Dole. The main advice to Clinton: Don't let Dole drag you off the presidential pedestal, stay on your sunny message and don't bite your lip. Dole rehearsed in the first-floor ballroom of his condominium building, where the campaign set up a stage bathed in TV lights. Aides sat at a table to the side, using flashlights to signal when time was up. Playing Clinton was former actor and good...
Netanyahu: Well, I think it was very hard to anticipate that the issue would serve as an opportunity to foment violence. But I think we have to understand there are innumerable issues that could serve that purpose. My main concern is that we restore the standard that no issue leads to violence, that violence is not a negotiating tactic. What will we do the next time we have an impasse? The next time there's a grievance...
Netanyahu: It seems to me that the Palestinians are suffering from two main burdens. One is the economic burden that is a function of the security situation, especially the closure [of Israel to Palestinian workers]. I explained to Arafat that the degree of closure is directly related to the degree that he fulfills his security obligations...
...world the Cirque brain trust finds the most inventive acts, then retools them to fit into director Franco Dragone's grand and elaborate design. Each show is identifiably Cirque, yet as distinct as a new Robert Wilson opera production. Like other Cirque shows, Quidam has a dozen or so main acts. As the featured artists parade the genius of their bodies in stunts of strength and grace, Cirque's menagerie (Edvard Munch's silent screamer, Clive Barker's Pinhead and dozens of other glamorous mutants) capers around them like bit players in an amiable madman's reverie. Ballerina-contortionists flex...
...been very successful at keeping the poor of other countries in line with death squads, torture and proxy armies and the poor of the United States under control with drugs. The main purpose of the CIA is not intelligence but protecting and enchancing corporate power and global capitalism...