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...conflict in which the balance of forces is so lopsided. Israel's military is among the world's most heavily armed and proficient. Arafat's scruffy troops have neither tanks, artillery nor aircraft. But if it wasn't quite war last week, it was nevertheless a fierce mess. The exhaustive, seven-year effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through negotiation has withstood great tests, but none as scorching as this. While regional leaders agreed to a summit this week in Egypt, their ambitions were contained by the need to squelch the bloodletting. After two weeks of violence, neither Israeli...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Middle East is a mess, but Slobo's fall validates your hawkishness and your life story...
...this sounds like a mess, but it isn't; all of Spector's productions have a solid beat - they swing, in fact - and in each number some distinctive solo instrument rides clearly above the mix, carefully placed, articulating the hooks. (Take a listen to the acoustic guitar in this segment from "Uptown.") One of the most interesting components in the Wall of Sound is the horn section, which modulates through the chords without accent, like a pianist who hits a chord once and then holds down the reverb pedal until the next harmonic shift. Other elements define the beat...
...phone to his son in the Oval Office may seem a more reassuring bet in such a crisis than the continuation of an outfit that failed to prepare for this day and was relentlessly bamboozled by Yasser Arafat, the man responsible, more than any other, for the dangerous mess...
Shortly after we married, I found my husband savaging my window treatments. "What have you done to the swag?" I asked, eyeing a mess on the living-room floor that would never, ever again hang in crisp folds across a decorative rod. "I figured it was time to let the drapes do some work," he said. What drapes? Even the cat knew we had nothing hidden up there. Just the, uh, former swag...