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Against his father's advice, Brooks married his high school sweetheart weeks before leaving for the Navy. After one year of training school, Brooks spent two years on a ship in the Mediterranean and Caribbean as a supply officer...
Today the hinge of Jewish history, the guardian of Jewish destiny, is Israel. After Europe, there was no other choice. It is a terrible irony, however, that the relocation of the heart of Jewish life to a tiny patch of land hard by the Mediterranean makes possible the final realization of Hitler's project. Now it will take but a few nuclear missiles or a battery of poison-gas Scuds to complete the final solution...
...SETTING WAS MAJESTIC: A city of gleaming skyscrapers backed by magnificent snow-capped mountains, a Mediterranean-style villa perched on a splendid promontory overlooking the northern Pacific. The results of the weekend summit meeting in Vancouver, Canada, were inevitably less grandiose. Indeed, Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin hardly aimed at any readily measurable result. Dollars and cents may have been the language of discourse, but the effect was largely symbolic: to demonstrate that Yeltsin still has firm American support in his hour of trial, that Clinton is not quite an uninterested novice in foreign affairs and that the West...
...therefore, necessarily limited. Contact with Africa remained confined to coastal regions as late as the year 1600 and de Gama did not even round the coast of Africa until 1498. In refusing this truth, perhaps Muhammad is implicitly asserting that the word "Western" extends beyond Europe and the Mediterranean to include Africa. If this is the case, however, he has construed "Western" so broadly that it is no longer of any value as a qualifier, and, furthermore, he ought to have notified his audience of his divergent use of the term. Perhaps, alternatively, Muhammad is suggesting that Western history...
According to a spokesperson for Priority Records, the recently-named distributor of the artist's work, Ice T was on his yacht in the Mediterranean Sea last night, and was un- available for comment...