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...violent path down which Yassir Arafat has led Palestinians has been a complete moral and strategic failure. Palestinians have lived in makeshift camps for nearly 40 years, and their "leaders" have resisted Israeli attempts to provide them with better housing. Saudi petro-billions have bought the Palestinians machine guns, not a better life...
...show, replete with dueling auctioneers and a chorus line of just plain folks wrapped in Old Glory. What makes the scene -- pure performance art -- so arresting, though, is not its content but its location. In the X-ray light of the setting sun, each catwalk and scaffold of a makeshift stage stands silhouetted against the empty spaces of the plains. At this instant, the vision of another artist leaps to mind: the spaceship sequence from Einstein on the Beach...
...sounds like vintage Hollywood. Driven from the university by Italy's Fascists just before World War II, a brilliant young Jewish biologist persists in her pioneering research into the nervous system, using makeshift equipment in a farmhouse bedroom. Food is so scarce that after experimenting on chicken embryos, she whips the leftover yolks into omelets. But she perseveres. Invited to work in the U.S. after the war, she meets a young biochemist, and together they launch a new field that promises hope for everything from cancer to burns...
...then President Harold Heinold the idea of staging pig races as a way to promote the company's name. "He looked at me and said, 'Work it out for next year.' Just like that." Holding read up on how Pavlov had trained his dogs and then set up a makeshift starting gate, put a food pan at the finish line, rang a bell and chased the pigs to the pan. "I did this 20 to 25 times, three times a day," he says. "After four days, the pigs had figured out the game, and I'd lost five pounds...
...battered Israelimade Arava. At El Zorro, a Bolivian official proudly pointed to sacks that appeared to contain white flour and knowingly murmured, "Cocaine." Actually, it was flour. Later the reporters piled into their plane -- then piled out when the fully loaded craft was unable to take off from the makeshift 300-foot runway. After being shuttled to a more suitable airstrip, they lifted off and returned to Trinidad. At that point, antsy members of the second group were told their trip was delayed. But when the reporters reassembled the following morning, the group learned that the Leopards had misunderstood their...