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...Rabin and Secretary of State Warren Christopher felt certain Hizballah was, as the Secretary put it, "at the bottom of some of these" bombings of Israeli and Jewish targets. "Groups like Hizballah that wreak havoc and bloodshed," he said, "and Hizballah's sponsor, Iran," must not be allowed to prevail. If their goal is to halt the moves toward peace, they probably will not succeed. Car bombings and terrorist atrocities now seem irrelevant to a Middle East so close to an overall settlement...
...guess is that the indomitable Simpson case will prevail. After all, it has enjoyed the highest media saturation of any story since the Gulf War, and that affair involved over a half-million good guys, a pretty formidable villain (complete with evil, soup-strainer moustache and ominous-sounding name) and the deaths of more than 100,000 of the bad guy's under-lings. So death for death, the Simpson case is probably the most potent media monopolizer the world has ever known...
Stubbornness and defiance helped Kaysen to land in a psychiatric hospital and prevail as a writer. The daughter of an economics professor, she grew up in Cambridge, a privileged setting where going to college seemed inevitable. But Kaysen, who hated school, would have none of it. "I was very sulky and tantrumy," she says. She lived in a commune in Cambridge after graduating from high school...
...more prosaic technical and political discussion groups, meanwhile, have become so crowded with writers crying for attention that a Darwinian survival principle has started to prevail. "It's so competitive that you have to work on your style if you want to make any impact," says Jorn Barger, a software designer in Chicago. Good writing on the Net tends to be clear, vigorous, witty and above all brief. "The medium favors the terse," says Crawford Kilian, a writing teacher at Capilano College in Vancouver, British Columbia. "Short paragraphs, bulleted lists and one-liners are the units of thought here...
...just have to stop because this bill has been passed," Martin said. "I hope that cooler heads prevail along...