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...earlier Hamas bombing campaign. Arafat asked Dichter how he could improve the situation. Dichter, who is fluent in Arabic, replied that Arafat should arrest Mohammed Deif, then Hamas' military chief and a household name among Palestinians and Israelis. Arafat looked at his aides and asked, plainly disingenuously, "Mohammed who?" Nevertheless, Dichter has argued against exiling Arafat, believing he would be more dangerous where Israel could not keep...
...ground, no matter what. In 1987, when Stewart was negotiating with Kmart for the licensing deal that would turn her into, literally, a household name, she was just a popular cookbook author--"a nobody," says Paul Argenti, who worked on the project as a consultant to Kmart's CEO. Nevertheless, she stood up to Kmart's top executives, who wanted her to take an exclusive deal with the Lifetime cable channel to help promote the new line. "She's very passionate when she thinks she's right," says Argenti. "She said, 'I can do better than this.' They thought...
...world is narrow, existing within roughly 10 square blocks of West Los Angeles. Try as she might, she cannot remember the state in which her in-laws live (Georgia). She does not know what the NASDAQ is but understands the anthropological significance of floor seats at a Lakers game. Nevertheless, she proves to be a not only likable but also sympathetic character, particularly after her carefully planned march to the altar ends up throwing her for a financial loop...
...respect for his dad, and the history of Cyprus that he represents," says Kudret Akay, a childhood friend and sociologist. "But he doesn't compare himself to him." Serdar is more relaxed (he's a diver and race-car fan) and less rigid, but ambitious nevertheless. "It is no coincidence that he has been way out front on the issue of opening the border," says one senior Western diplomat. The two men have a close, if formal, relationship. At the Denktash dinner table, talk of politics is banned. To discuss business matters, Serdar makes an appointment with...
...sweated as he tilled infertile fields, the elementary school teacher who toiled away in teaching her students and that friend who helped relieve our burden,” he said, according to the translation printed in the program, “all of these, although they may be forgotten, nevertheless are a vital part of us today and will be for as long as we live...