Word: normally
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...change history. Between Syria and Israel, the game turns on an after-you-Alphonse test of who will speak the key words first. Before Israel will agree to withdraw from the strategic Golan Heights it captured from Syria in 1967, Jerusalem must first hear "full peace" and "normal relations" from Syria. Before Syria will say those words, it wants to hear from Israel "complete withdrawal...
...with Syrian President Hafez Assad. Speaking to the press afterward, Assad declared, "We want a genuine peace which secures the interests of all sides and renders to all their rights. If the leaders of Israel have sufficient courage to respond to this kind of peace, the new era of normal, peaceful relations among all shall dawn." As he flew home, Clinton insisted that Assad's statement was a significant step forward. "I think he has reached a conclusion that it is in the interest of his people, his administration and his legacy to make a meaningful and lasting peace," said...
Israelis heard Assad say a word they've been waiting to hear -- normal -- then refuse to define it. They fear they will end up giving away strategically crucial territory in return for little more than a cold cessation of hostilities. Officials read heavy meaning into Syria's initial refusal to admit Israeli journalists to the Geneva press conference. Even after Clinton sent two emissaries to Jerusalem to explain his belief that Assad's "normal" actually meant the open borders, tourism, free trade and diplomatic relations Israel seeks, Rabin was unconvinced. "The Americans were stretching things to try to convince themselves...
These days, Winger isn't worried about her career tomorrows; she has no , films in her immediate future. Her main mission is, in her words, "to send someone off who will be able to go further than I go. I was my parents' third kid; the other two were normal. And now, as a parent, I know that the deepest, darkest secret about children is, 'Where did they get it from? We didn't teach them that -- where did they...
...school field in Brentwood, his L.A. sojourns are practically all work. "I have triple breakfasts and 18-hour days," he says. "What I've learned is that if you're organized enough and you're compulsive enough, you can make your 10 days count for 25 days of a normal person." Tartikoff at double speed: Hollywood may be used to it, but this sounds like a story for Weekly World News...