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...also tore into Netanyahu for his unenthusiastic offers to the Palestinians, asking what Israel has to gain by insulting Yasser Arafat. The attack is just the sort of loyal opposition Peres is expected to provide; to date, he's been missing in action, letting other members of the party mount the offensive. "He's still head of the Labor Party, much to the dismay of younger leaders, who were expecting him to resign as party leader," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "After the May election, a lot of people thought his career would be over and he would...
...where or why I say that name, it provokes a response. I have given up trying to compete with Harvard for the chance to make the first impression. It is a Herculean task, and I, despite what people seem to think, do not go to school on Mount Olympus. The irony of it all is that this summer, I had hoped to take a break from being a Harvard student, something I haven't done since I began college. I packed my bags and flew 2,000 miles away, only to realize that you don't escape it that easily...
...late Malcolm Muggeridge, British literary curmudgeon, on the royal marriage: "Only fortunetellers, Marxists and Jehovah's Witnesses will venture to prognosticate whether Prince Charles and Lady Diana will actually one day mount the throne as King and Queen of England. In the course of 50 years of knockabout journalism, I have seen too many upheavals of one sort and another to feel any certainty about anything or anyone... Popularity, however seemingly strong and widespread, can evaporate in an afternoon, and institutions that have lasted for centuries disappear overnight. So I can but conclude by simply saying, 'God bless the Prince...
Lamm calls himself a controversial politician whose time is now, the right man to appeal to a public sick of platitudes. But his time may come and go before he knows it, given the hurdles he faces--financial, logistical--just to mount a third-party bid. He now has less than a week in which to woo at least 10% of the Reform Party's 1.3 million petition signers. If enough of them put his name on their draft ballots, he will be invited to speak at the party convention Aug. 11 in Long Beach, California. Then participants will vote...
Your article on the role of faith in healing [MEDICINE, June 24] only highlights what we in India have known for thousands of years: the ordinary human body has almost unlimited powers and wonderful potential. As proof, we can look at the human beings who climbed Mount Everest without oxygen or who swam 100 km nonstop or who calculated the square root of a 27-digit number faster than a computer. All these feats were achieved by ordinary people just like you and me. The overwhelming majority of humans do not realize what they possess, and hence the power lies...