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TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart has been in the forefront of Lebanon's firing lines for more than two years. Those lines have now touched his life with uncomfortable intimacy. While reporting to magazine headquarters in New York City from the Commodore Hotel in West Beirut, Stewart...
Yet somewhere, a jarring note sounds. As grievance piles upon grievance, the anti-Israeli rhetoric becomes venomous, hateful. In at all too typical example, the Village Voice compared Israel's invasion of Lebanon to the Nazi advances in Eastern Europe at the start of World War II. Such analogies are...
On the Temple Mount, an eerie calm prevailed. Shattered glass fragments, almost jewel-like in their symmetry, lay in piles outside the walls of the Dome of the Rock. Inside the eight gates to the Mount, Israeli troops and police stood guard, restricting the entry of would-be worshipers. The...
But a major painter? Of course not; he is a salon wit. Cliche piles on cliche:
For Ronald Reagan it is one of those times. The unexpected, like Argentina's seizure of the Falkland Islands, piles on the inevitable, like the winding down of Leonid the power in Moscow, which adds to the unfathomable, like the nagging persistence of high interest rates. The rising clamor...