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...Camp David was the zenith of his career, his ineptness in economic policy nearly proved his undoing. By 1981 the Likud trailed in the polls. Just three weeks before elections, Begin ordered the attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor. The raid, which helped the Likud eke out a narrow victory, signaled a newly aggressive Israeli military policy. On June 6, 1982, army tanks rolled into Lebanon. The country paid a high price: more than 600 of its soldiers died, and 3,000 were wounded. There were also psychological scars after Israel permitted Christian Phalangist militiamen to enter the Palestinian refugee...
...anchor a year ago, has managed to make people forget the short, unhappy tenure of Deborah Norville. Bryant Gumbel, the show's sometimes testy on-air leader for the past decade, is smiling more. And the audience is filing back into the auditorium. Though Good Morning America retains a narrow lead in the ratings, Today scored a weekly win last month for the first time in more than two years...
...delivers Rory's father to hell. After the mother of his three young daughters dies, he marries Aimee Desiree, a wild Creole beauty half his age. The marriage -- and the faithless Aimee Desiree -- is doomed. She meets her fate at 3 a.m. in a white Thunderbird hurtling along a narrow causeway across Lake Pontchartrain. The daughters never hear their father mention her again, but the moment of her passing envelopes each of them. The author understands a fundamental truth about Southerners: to them, she writes, "sweet and sad mean the same thing." Like an expert mixologist, Bosworth measures out life...
...band performance and crowd response noticeably improved when U2 finally began to play material from past albums. Walking along a narrow platform to a small stage on one side of the floor, the four members of U2 performed an acoustical version of "Angel of Harlem" with spirited vocal accompaniment from virtually every member of the audience...
After last Tuesday's contests, the former Senator from Massachusetts and the Arkansas Governor emerged as joint front runners. Bob Kerrey, losing badly everywhere, quit the race, and Tom Harkin's war chest is empty. Jerry Brown's narrow win in Colorado will allow him to continue receiving federal matching funds to wage a guerrilla operation...