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...midst of a hectic class schedule in which every course gets lotteried off to seniors, I take solace in that mini tin can with the smiling, sunglasses-wearing, blue fish staring...
That is what the Israeli opposition claims, and given Arafat's history, it is hardly an implausible claim. In the eyes of Likud, a P.L.O. entity in the West Bank and Gaza would be a kind of mini-Syria in its midst, an implacable enemy building a deadly new platform for the final showdown with the Jews...
Others foresee in the West Bank and Gaza not a mini-Syria but a mini- Lebanon: a hopelessly fractured and heavily armed society riven by civil war (here between the secularist P.L.O. and Islamic fundamentalists) simply dissolving into anarchy and chaos. Some are even predicting that Arafat may not live very long if he returns to Gaza, stronghold of the Islamic Hamas militants who revile him and reject any hint of coexistence with Israel...
...Fugitive, has heard him referred to as "the new Bogart. He's not the most attractive, smooth-faced guy in the world, yet he has this sexuality. He really is the Southwestern Bogart." Which is why the character closest to Jones may be Woodrow Call in the Lonesome Dove mini-series: a haggard Texan who loves horses and leads...
...should remain a single, multiethnic state. He had held out against U.N. demands that he sign on to a plan partitioning Bosnia into 10 ethnic provinces. Now, under heavy pressure from the U.N., and from U.S. special envoy Reginald Bartholomew, who promised him substantial financial aid for his new mini- state, he could resist no longer. He accepted a plan to cut his country apart along ethnic lines. "We have achieved preliminary agreement," he told his people, "on the transformation of Bosnia and Herzegovina into a union of three republics...