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...Ultimately, Arafat's primary weakness may be his distance from his own people. Mandela came of age politically in a mass movement based in the dusty streets of South Africa's townships, before finding himself forced underground and eventually jailed. Circumstances forced Arafat, by contrast, almost from the outset to engage in the underground politics of conspiracy - small groups of trusted insiders launching guerrilla attacks and melting back into the civilian population. Later, as the leader of an exiled Palestinian movement more often than not at odds with its Arab hosts, those methods kept Arafat alive and maintained the coherence...
While, as your editorial concedes, Phelan did in fact achieve much of this mandate, she also challenged Harvard to solidify its commitment to the arts and to address historic problems regarding funding, space and faculty hiring. At the outset of her appointment as chair, Phelan wrote in September 1999 a detailed letter to Knowles outlining her concerns for the future of the department and her plans and ideas to build it. In January 2000 she received her first response from the dean, in which he acknowledged her “very thorough analyses and thoughtful recommendations for the future...
...Kidman found her singing voice quickly ("there was a real sweetness of tone from the outset," says musical director Marius De Vries), but her dancing was sometimes more Gerald Ford than Ginger Rogers. During rehearsal, Kidman broke a rib and spent weeks recovering at home in Sydney. While Cruise tended to her ("he was very good to me," she says), Kidman spent the downtime on her sofa rehearsing songs. Near the end of production, she tore cartilage in her knee while shooting the Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend number...
...they were all given gift certificates for a spa getaway, as a prize for being the lucky cast to star in the 1,000th "Law & Order" franchise show. Surprisingly, it looks like, um, a "Law & Order" show. The gimmick here: you see the crime being perpetrated at the outset, from the criminal's perspective. A voice-over promised the audience, "You get the chance to solve the crime before they do." I don't quite get how that works, since you actually already know who committed the crime, but it can't be any more dumbed-down than "Who Wants...
Kidman found her singing voice quickly ("there was a real sweetness of tone from the outset," says musical director Marius De Vries), but her dancing was sometimes more Gerald Ford than Ginger Rogers. During rehearsal, Kidman broke a rib and spent weeks recovering at home in Sydney. While Cruise tended to her ("he was very good to me," she says), Kidman spent the downtime on her sofa rehearsing songs. Near the end of production, she tore cartilage in her knee while shooting the Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend number...