Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does reflect that Netanyahu has a serious problem: that his government may be too right-wing to make the concessions necessary to keep the peace process alive." Some of his constituents are clearly not helping. Early Friday, Jewish families set up seven mobile homes on Artis Hill, disputed land near the West Bank settlement of Beit El. They were later joined by some 200 more swaying, praying settlers, who promised to build a new settlement on the site. Palestinian farmers say Artis Hill belongs to them. As both sides struggle to resolve the conflict, Arafat and U.S. envoy Dennis Ross...
...FINISHING FIRST, ALAS: Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus is voted near dictatorial powers...
...peace for the loved ones of Jessica Dubroff. The death of the seven-year-old pilot, who had been attempting to become the youngest person ever to fly cross-country, tore at the nation's heartstrings after her Cessna went down shortly after take-off during an icy rainstorm near Cheyenne, Wyoming, last April. Perhaps inevitably, Jessica's survivors are heading to court: her stepmother, Melinda Dubroff, is suing Jessica's natural mother, Lisa Blair Hathaway, over the life-insurance benefits of Jessica's father, who also died in the crash. Hathaway, for her part, has filed a claim against...
...perhaps, a commendable ambition. But it is also a mannered, distancing and irritating one. Campion's style is not helpful in involving us in one of James' most admired variations on his most basic theme: an innocent young American confused and seduced by wily European sophisticates. Neither is the near catatonic coolness with which Nicole Kidman plays a woman whose impulses toward self-definition are balanced (or unbalanced) by equally strong impulses toward self-destruction...
...year-olds, the kind of mean widdle kids who cheerfully tell you that they come in peace just before they zap you with their ray guns. The earthlings, from the family in the White House to the gang in Las Vegas, to the dysfunctional bunch living in a trailer near a small Kansas town, are presented as entirely worthy of zapping; they are all either too dumb or too self-absorbed to warrant salvation. Indeed, the big, slowly dawning joke in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! is that, unlike Independence Day or any other high-tech disaster movie, most...