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...nature of the Israeli opposition to the agreement of principles makes it difficult to predict how it will behave in the coming months. At the moment, an uneasy coalition exists. On one end are religious extremists who proclaim that it is a desecration of God to give up Jericho; on the other are the hundreds of relatively moderate Israelis who moved to settlements in the territories less for ideological reasons than for economic ones...
...immense if. Peace must pay economically if it is to endure -- or indeed come about at all. What has been achieved so far is not really peace but the beginning of a negotiation between adversaries who, though they finally recognize each other's existence, seize every opportunity to proclaim that they do not yet trust each other. Trust will grow only if each successive step leads to a measurably better life -- primarily for Palestinians but also for Israelis. If it does not, Hamas and other extremists will thrive on the poverty and despair. Some Israelis euphorically predict that peace will...
...drawing-room virtues of reticence and gentility are considered dead in the Age of Prurience. Yet they still govern our lives whenever we check an impulse to explode in love or anger -- when we don't shout at a reckless motorist, or we keep quiet when we mean to proclaim our ardor. If Richard Kimble is a hero for our fugitive fantasy egos, Newland Archer is the patron saint of our everyday conscience, the coachman on our journey as the years dissolve into decades and the decades into decay...
...supporters realized that with a mere 29 percent of the American people's backing, they need every bit of moral cover they can find. Their solution was to name the bill the Cesar Chavez Workplace Fairness Act, and have Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.,) proclaim that the bill was "a statement...about our fundamental values in this country...
Like many a talented nonfiction writer, Malcolm has come to think of herself as an artist. Her narratives proclaim her a storyteller, not just a fact gatherer. Without that gift and some measure of literary license -- with only a daily newspaper's flat objectivity -- a 48,500-word profile would be unbearable. Perhaps she could make a case for broadening the boundaries of "responsible journalism." She has not. Her defense is that her quotations are literal. They ought to be. Writers use the quoted word because it has a special piquancy -- the sacred appeal of being, in an often shadowy...