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...Hardly surprising, then, that Arab opinionmakers deemed the Nobel award premature. "This is too early. He is still living off slogans," says Dawoud Ibrahim, the producer of Al Hadath, a political news show on the Lebanese Broadcasting Channel. "People spend years working for peace," says Layal Abou Rahal, an editor at the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida. "What did he do? Let's imagine he will in fact help in the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians. What will they give him as a reward then...
...slopes of Switzerland's Upper Engadine valley, St. Moritz is thoroughly civilized: yachting and water sports on crystal-blue lakes; hiking in the dry, sparkling champagne climate; long cycle rides or drives along winding mountain roads. "People don't want to bake on the beach the whole time," says Rahal Bigger-Morf of St. Moritz's landmark Badrutt's Palace hotel (tel: [41-81] 837 1000; www.badruttspalace.com). The tiny Swiss village owes a lot to Johannes Badrutt. Originally a summer retreat, St. Moritz's winter potential was only realized in 1864, when Badrutt, owner of a small local hotel, told...
...People don't want to bake on the beach the whole time," says Rahal Bigger-Morf of St. Moritz's landmark Badrutt's Palace hotel (tel: [41-81] 837 1000; www.badruttspalace.com). The tiny Swiss village owes a lot to Johannes Badrutt. Originally a summer retreat, St. Moritz's winter potential was only realized in 1864, when Badrutt, owner of a small local hotel, told four disbelieving English hikers that winter was so warm people were in shirtsleeves. He bet them that if they returned for Christmas and proved him wrong he would pay all their travel expenses. If right, they...
...familiar, futile ritual, the U.N. Security Council was called into session last week in response to the Israeli commando attacks on Beirut. Even Arab diplomats acknowledged that they did not expect the meeting to find a solution to the Middle East crisis. In fact, said Algerian Ambassador Abdellatif Rahal, "it is not my intention to propose one." Instead, he and other Middle Eastern emissaries planned to spend the session condemning both Israel and the U.S., which, in the view of Arab leaders, promotes Israel's military aggressiveness...
...Rahal charged that it was "curious that the U.S. should recognize no responsibility for the use that is made of the arms and financial aid that it furnishes Israel, or that it should express astonishment at the suspicion shown toward it when events such as those in Lebanon take place...