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...having dinner a month ago with a friend and her parents in suburban Maryland. They were mortified that I was going to be living in Southeast. They forbade my friend from coming down to visit my place because they feared crime. When I lived in Georgetown last summer, she was welcome to visit as much as she wanted. That a knife attack occurred on my old Georgetown block the week before I dined with them was meaningless. Further, there had been no reported crimes in my Southeast neighborhood, Eastern Market. Since then, there have been two high-profile murders...
...where they left off at Camp David in talks scheduled for Sunday. Because as difficult as it is for them to reach an agreement, neither side can afford to hand the strategic initiative to the hard-liners in each camp. They may have failed to conclude a deal in Maryland, but they're talking as they were before, better apprised of each other's bottom lines...
...former TIME correspondent in Asia, Africa and Europe, Curtis Prendergast lives in and writes from rural Maryland...
...some high ideal or lofty principle. It's not in an undrawn line in the dry hills of East Jerusalem. It's not even in the hearts or minds of the Israeli and Palestinian leaders meeting since July 11 under the auspices of President Clinton at Camp David in Maryland's secluded Catoctin Mountains. The secret to peace in the Middle East is easy to find--it's scribbled on the loose-leaf paper of a black, flexible-plastic three-ring binder, just like the kind you used in high school. The binder belongs to Dennis Ross...
...11th hour last week, the Palestinian leader and Israeli prime minister decided to remain at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, to see if they could reach an agreement that ended their 52-year-old conflict. An exhausted Bill Clinton flew to Okinawa early Thursday morning to keep his date with the G-8 economic summit, leaving Secretary of State Madeleine Albright behind to see if she could keep the two sides inching closer to an agreement until he returned this coming week...