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...famously prefers domestic to foreign policy, Clinton is engaged in a particularly demanding international agenda this week. At summit meetings with NATO leaders in Brussels, with Central Europeans in Prague and with Boris Yeltsin in Moscow, he intends to take the first steps toward reshaping the entire East-West matrix. It is a task that would challenge a President far more at ease in foreign affairs than...
Most local officials know better than to wait for the feds to come to their rescue. Instead, some communities are fashioning their own promising solutions. San Francisco has launched the "Matrix" program, which teams up police with social-service and health-care workers. As the cops make their sweeps of parks, the specialists examine the homeless for disease and provide information on where to get shelter or treatment...
What this is all about is breaking the matrix of hate. The conflicts that always seem most implacable spring from an intensity of loathing rooted in the conviction that it was "us or them": enemies who could not live together, ideas that could not compromise, land demanded entirely by one claimant. Outside intervention might have quelled the quarrels, but only if one side could be vanquished. In the struggle between Western democracy and communism, the danger of using force was literally too great. In the five wars between Arabs and Israelis, neither side could obliterate the other...
...trusted with a truly independent state? Offsetting these perils has been the Israeli government's remarkable change of heart in reaching out to the P.L.O., and Arafat's unexpected change of mind in starting with less than everything. For too long both sides have assumed they operated in a matrix of power they could not control: the Ottoman Empire, the British mandate, the cold war. They are now free to live with each other, separate but equal. Ben-Gurion's definition of realism, like Joshua's trumpets, is blowing down the walls of Jericho...
...mirror, the sense of spatial enigma drops away. You are left with a plain rendition in rather liquid paint of a girl in a red cardigan and an artist in a mustard- colored shirt. The Velazquez references sink back, as they are meant to do, into the matrix of observed reality...