Word: paled
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TIME correspondent Alexandra Niksic reports that there is still no word from Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic about the agreement. "That is somewhat worrisome," says Niksic. "There is an obvious mixed reaction in Pale, the city that has become the de-facto capitol of the Bosnian Serb government lead by Karadzic. Officials are not happy with the agreement, but ordinary people are feeling relieved. One woman, the wife of a local leader, told me that she welcomes the agreement because it is a chance for the Bosnian Serbs to have their own country. 'We can live...
Though the Loker Commons are located underground, they are bright and airy. The wood paneling, in contrast to the Great Hall upstairs, is a pale shade...
...more than just that. Rascoff questions what are "the distinctive ideals the Jewish state when Jews prove themselves as capable of gruesome violence as any other nation[.]" Rascoff proceeds to argue that "if the distance between the extreme right and left is so great that murder is within the pale of the possible... why should there be a Jewish state?" For Rascoff, the assassination of Rabin by an Israeli Jewish citizen puts into question the very legitimacy of the state of Israel...
...second time in just over three months for what was described as "an insufficiency of oxygenated blood to the heart," showed up on the evening news in a 40-sec. video clip produced by the Kremlin. Dressed in a blue, green and white track suit, the pale, puffy-faced President sat slumped in a chair next to Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin. In a slurred speech, Yeltsin explained that he "wasn't feeling too bad" and considered himself "out of danger." But the public-relations ploy did little to allay suspicions about the true state of the President's health...
...Rabin assassination gives the lie to the native belief that somehow, some way, all Israeli Jews are part of one great big family. They are not. But if they are not--if the distance between the extreme right and left is so great that murder is within the pale of the possible--why should there be a Jewish state...