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SHIMON PERES, Israeli Vice Premier, on lessons learned from the war with Hizballah. In a speech to a London think tank, he argued that Israel must re-evaluate its tactics, saying that sustained economic growth may work where "neither force nor diplomacy...
...Alexander de Waal lived briefly with the Janjaweed, a militia of Arab nomads in Sudan. Twenty-two years later, de Waal found himself negotiating a peace settlement among his former hosts, the Sudanese government, and the rebel groups. As a premier expert on Sudan, de Waal, a research associate at the Global Equity Initiative at the Harvard Asia Center, was an adviser to the African Union’s negotiations with the Sudanese government this past year. ‘IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD’De Waal’s first contact with Darfur’s warring parties dates...
...hypocrisy, spitting “Now come on everybody, let’s make cocaine cool / We need a few more half naked women up in the pool.” It’s clear that Fiasco could become one of hip-hop’s premier lyricists. He has tremendous range, scribing the light-hearted skateboard romance “Kick, Push” and Sturm und Drang issue songs like “He Say She Say” and “Hurt Me Soul.” “The Cool” tells...
...Film Forum, New York City's premier repertory house, is providing a lavish reminder that the six did have productive careers beyond their 20s by presenting Pythonalot, a two-week retrospective of the canon films, plus Cleese's A Fish Called Wanda and Gilliam's always-worth-reseeing Jabberwocky, Time Bandits and Brazil. True to the absurdist spirit of Python, a disclaimer on the Film Forum webpage reads: "SPAM? IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF HORMEL FOODS CORP. PYTHON AND ALOT ADAPTED FROM MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT LOGO. USED WITH PERMISSION...
...Landstuhl, Germany. They then joined my friends and sister Leslie Flesch in lobbying to get acting Secretary of the Army Les Brownlee to admit me to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, making me the first reporter wounded in combat known to have received such treatment at the premier hospital reserved for soldiers...