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...obviously built for peaceful times. It sits beneath a ficus tree, shaded from the Middle East sun. But these days the box is mostly empty, since the tree provides no cover from the "sniper house" across the road. Regular salvos from the second floor of the unfinished Palestinian house rake the settlement, home to 250 people...
...mostly it's about sex. The adrenaline-charged opening begins in a pheromone-drenched disco on Pittsburgh's gay mecca, Liberty Avenue, then hurtles at 200 beats a minute into an outre lust scene between 29-year-old rake Brian (Gale Harold) and Justin (Randy Harrison), a kid of 17--count 'em, 17--years. No conveniently arranged sheets, no angst, no kisses shot from the back: in 10 hot minutes, QAF opens the closet of gay TV sexuality and chucks in a neon stick of dynamite...
...Aviv was on the horn, relaying a hurried call from Israeli officials, who claimed that the road crossing the CIA director was approaching was blocked; he couldn't enter Palestinian territory. What the Israelis didn't tell him was that their helicopter gunships were just miles away, about to rake targets near Arafat's Gaza City headquarters, and they didn't want Tenet caught in the cross fire. Tenet whipped his limo around and headed for Tel Aviv, where he phoned in a report to the White House. "It's pretty dicey here," he said...
...hearing the candidates slam each other. Agreement begins with the most basic calculation: How much money will be available to fund tax cuts and new spending and to pay off federal debt? Both sides accept a Congressional Budget Office estimate that with no changes in policy, the government will rake in a staggering $4.6 trillion more than it pays out over the next 10 years...
Cleveland, a bachelor but an improbable rake, acknowledged the child, for whom he had provided support payments to Maria Halpin all along. "Above all," Cleveland instructed his people, "tell the truth." An admirable thought. The New York Sun's Charles A. Dana wrote: "We do not believe that the American people will knowingly elect to the Presidency a coarse debauchee who would bring his harlots with him to Washington, and hire lodgings for them convenient to the White House." By October the Nation judged: "Party contests have never before reached so low a depth of degradation as this." The Democrats...