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...French fondness for la difference was also manifest in a peace plan Paris unveiled in Luxembourg. It contained two elements that are offensive to Washington: 1) the implication that Baghdad need only promise to leave Kuwait to forestall an attack, and 2) an implied linkage of the kind Saddam seeks -- that is, a guarantee that once the pullout is complete, all outstanding issues of the region will be addressed in an international forum. Apparently, however, Iraq did not see a rift that was exploitable; at week's end Aziz turned down an invitation from the E.C. ministers for a separate...
...that no individual or group has a rightful dominance here and in understanding and respecting our differences--in gender, race, ethnicity and socio-economic class characteristics. Perhaps the most frequent encounters across such difference are those between men and women. And in these encounters inappropriate assertion of dominance is manifest in many ways, often unconsciously...
Byatt, 54, has acknowledged the influence of Umberto Eco and John Fowles on her work, and traces of The Name of the Rose and The French Lieutenant's Woman are easy to find. But its manifest intelligence, subtle humor and extraordinary texturing of the past within the present make Possession an original, and unforgettable, contribution...
...growing discontent in the East was manifest last week when more than 45,000 municipal workers in East Berlin, Magdeburg, Chemnitz and other cities staged two-hour "warning strikes" to support calls for higher pay, job security and preferential tax treatment in a united Germany. For the second time in two weeks, public transportation was crippled and garbage trucks blocked the entrances of department stores, as bus drivers joined sanitation workers, nurses and secretaries for rallies in at least 10 cities. The demonstrators complain that their salaries, which average about half those in the West, are not enough to cover...
...despite my seemingly blase new attitude, I've recently discovered that my hopes for a glorious Sox season manifest themselves as pervasively, if not as passionately, as ever before. The first thing I do every summer morning--as I have done for the past 12 years--is open up the sports pages and see how the team fared the previous night...