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Privately, some Israelis were more effusive. "This is a major victory," a prominent Likud member told me. "The tactics that we used to roll up the terrorist networks in the West Bank will be taught at West Point. Which is not to say there won't be more attacks, but there won't be the waves of bombers there were two years ago." Indeed, as we talked, a car-bomb attempt at a Gaza settlement was foiled by the military...
...years, as a solo artist and as part of several iconic groups, Stills has mixed politics with rock ‘n’ roll. He electrified Woodstock and lit up the Berlin Wall as it fell. Speaking at Harvard might be a high point for most public speakers, but for Stills it was more like a night...
Stills said he was convinced, first and foremost, that musicians have a place stumping for a presidential nominee. Asked what power music can hold in this polarized election year, with apocalyptic visions disseminated and dissected by both sides, the two-time Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer answered immediately: music can “make people feel something besides fear...
...dime for every time I've heard that one" in response to Dili's case. Galbraith asks a woman on his team to hand a 25? coin to the opposing side in a dispute that is worth perhaps 50 billion times that amount. Pulses race, heads turn, eyes roll among the negotiators; each side digs its trench a little deeper. This is petro-diplomacy, Timor Sea style. "It's like dealing with the Krajina Serbs (in Croatia)," says Galbraith, a former U.S. Ambassador in Zagreb, describing the Australians, who on the second day of talks declared that Dili...
...Have you heard it?" asks a 1st Cavalry Division private on patrol as he mans a machine gun in a Baghdad slum. "It's a good idea. Right now we drive around just enough to get people really angry and let them take shots at us. We should just roll over Sadr City and take out all the bad guys...