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...Arafat?s superstitions prove true, the Israeli leader may soon have no Palestinian counterpart with whom to deal. Arafat turned 70 on Wednesday, and according to Palestinian sources he has long believed the warning of some unnamed seer that he would not live more than 70 years. "During his recent meeting with Barak, Arafat was reported to be shaking badly and had great difficulty concentrating," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "And the fact that he has failed to prepare an heir has the Israelis and Americans very worried." Western governments have tended to turn a blind...
...trying to force the Republican Party and its elected officials to join his anti-affirmative-action crusade. In California and Washington his referendums won handily--54% and 58%, respectively--but Connerly had to do it with little institutional support. That pattern is being repeated in Florida. According to a recent poll, 83% of Florida's potential voters want to end racial preferences. But both Florida's Republican and Democratic political establishments have made it clear that they wish Connerly and his petitioners would just go away...
...real dancers is the one you make for yourself," he says, comparing the experience of watching Biped to channel surfing. But that may be precisely the point, according to Roger Copeland, author of an upcoming book on the choreographer. Copeland believes that Biped, like much of Cunningham's recent work, is about how to focus your attention in a world full of distractions. "It's a model for a very progressive society, where different components are able to exist side by side without encroaching on one another." That may sound like a pipe dream, but in Cunningham's inspired rendition...
...more wishing: last week UPS, which is based in Atlanta, said it will soon sell the public a 10% stake in what could be the biggest initial public offering ever ($4 billion or so) and the hottest in recent memory. CEO James Kelly says it's all about flexibility. Publicly traded shares will give him a currency to make acquisitions and compete better...
Even after John's death, she will probably stay behind the curtain of the public stage, pouring her energies again into her family life. Her most recent book with Alderman, The Right to Privacy, was read by some as a veiled protest written by a woman uneasy with the public's demands on her personal space. It is actually much more--a scholarly but accessible work that aims, in some small way, to raise public understanding of a complex legal problem. "I hope it will show people there is a process for working things out," she said...