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...builder. In 1977 Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, announcing before the Israeli Knesset the brave initiative that would become the 1979 Camp David peace accords, invoked, "Abraham--peace be upon him--great-grandfather of the Arabs and the Jews." Sadat noted that Abraham had undertaken his great sacrifice "not outof weakness but through free will, prompted by an unshakable belief in the ideals that lend life a profound significance," clearly hoping that both sides would approach Arab-Israeli cohabitation in the same spirit. The accords went through, although this time a sacrifice was completed. Sadat was assassinated...
...intimidating presence to opposingsnipers. She could also handle the puck wellenough to lead rushes down the ice, and the steadyforechecking of linemate Courtney Smith allowedthe Crimson to take gambles that often paid off.The line of Asano and junior defenseman ChristieMacKinnon did the dirty work to keep the puck outof the defensive zone...
...both have proven themselves as extremelycapable politicians. Russell has stepped far outof her husband's shadow. Their impact on the citywill continue to be felt long after their chairsare filled by others
Richard E. Hyland is now a law professor atRutgers University. In 1969, he created order outof the chaos students had created insideUniversity Hall. Soon after the students hadejected the administration, Hyland spurred thecreation of administrative units among theprotestors--food, sanitation and political actioncommittees were soon formed. They were loyal totheir pledge of "democracy" and voted to not useviolence in the case of a bust and to not usemarijuana...
...summary judgment of the last 30years is that while he was a fascinating andromantic figure, Hemingway was a colossal jerk.He is seen, at best, as ignoring women and atworst as a vicious misogynist; he is cast asanti-Semitic; he is pronounced guilty of writingAfrican-American and native African characters outof his works and of racism when he does includethem. And even when Hemingway is not offendinganybody, he has been labeled infantile. Writerslike Tobias Wolff mark their adulthood at thepoint when they cease to be entranced byHemingway's bravado; and perhaps many--like PeterMathiessen, who smugly pronounced the author a"brave...