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Ariel Sharon is hedging his bets. The Israeli prime minister, who leaves for Washington Tuesday, continues to denounce Yasser Arafat as irrelevant and insist there will be no negotiations until Arafat does more to stop Palestinian militants attacking Israelis. Last week he even went so far as to publicly regret not killing Arafat when Israeli forces captured Beirut in 1982. But even amidst the bellicose rhetoric, Sharon is still reaching out, meeting last week with aides of the Palestinian leader he has under virtual house arrest in Ramallah...
...imagine that the envelope you received wasn’t quite so thick. Heck, imagine that all it contained was a single letter, beginning with those oh-so-dreaded words: “We regret to inform you that we cannot offer you a place in the Harvard College Class of blah blah blah...” You’ve just been rejected! Now change the school to Stanford, change your name to Shaun, videotape the whole ordeal and BAM! You’ve got yourself a pivotal scene from Orange County, the new teen comedy from our friends...
...section?by far the most colorful of the book?Buruma encounters regret, disenchantment, infighting and paranoia among men and women who were hailed as heroes when they left China. Chai Ling, perhaps the most recognizable face among the Tiananmen student protesters, now runs an Internet company in Boston and tells Buruma she needs to "find space to build a beautiful new life" and wants "closure" on Tiananmen. Her "deputy" in the square, Li Lu, fronts a hedge fund on Madison Avenue. Others have turned away from political confrontation to espouse Christianity as an elixir for China's woes, insisting, despite...
...term President, could there be a more humbling path to power than this? The candidate with the perfect bloodlines comes to office amid charges that his is a bastard presidency, sired not by the voters but by the courts. You could almost see the weight of it, the regret and relief and resolve, when Bush rose last Wednesday night with tears in his eyes and promised, "I will work to earn your respect," all but admitting it does not just come with the job when you win this way. But could anyone possibly use this to greater advantage than George...
...regret saying...