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Until the talks at Camp David--and there too at times--Arafat and his delegates held hard to maximalist positions that the Israelis reject out of hand. To end the conflict once and for all, the Palestinians said, Israel would have to relinquish every inch of the Gaza Strip and West Bank. That would include all of East Jerusalem, which would become the capital of Palestine, as well as areas colonized by 175,000 Jewish settlers, who would have to leave. The negotiators also demanded the right of all Palestinian refugees from areas that are within Israel to return...
...Right, but that was a different job I was doing. When I was at the endowment, my main interest was in preserving the integrity of scholarship. When I was there, we were at the apogee of the time when people were rejecting the notion that scholarship should be objective or balanced. That seemed to me to present lots and lots of problems to a government agency funding scholarship. Because once you reject the notion that scholarship shouldn't be objective or strive for balance, then what you are funding are things that have a viewpoint. And what's the government...
...George W. Bush will be elected in November because American voters periodically want a change. After eight years of Bill Clinton, they will reject Al Gore in favor of a fresh start - meaning George W. That's what happened in 1992, the elder George says: After eight years of Reagan and four of Bush, the voters were restless. They had Republican fatigue. They wanted something different...
...suspects and hopes our souls will survive. In fact, viewers may reject VTV altogether before long. In Holland, Big Brother's follow-up, De Bus, drew just 5.7% of viewers, compared with 53% for its predecessor, even though its pretty young contestants all shared the same 5-m-wide bed on their communal-living bus. Survivor, gripping as it may currently be, seems like it should be in the dictionary under novelty. And Big Brother, with its less exotic setting and nightly schedule, may prove a Big Bore once viewers sample it. Not that you're the sort of person...
Ideas for other challenges will surface. My son Justin suggests that each candidate be asked to demonstrate a proficiency in dancing the lambada, the forbidden dance of love. I reject the idea. It does not comport with the dignity of the office...