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Responding to a rough letter from Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich, President Clinton wrote back Tuesday: "There will be no peace without America's engagement. If we turn our backs on this responsibility the damage to America's ability to lead, not just in NATO but in pursuit around the world of our interests in peace and prosperity, would be profound." Says Graff: "There is no doubt that the agreements are worthless without the American troops. Clinton has his work...
...actually a bit of a power-trip, to get to tell students what the low-down is in the 13th century," he says. "Although it was a shock, it was a good experience. I think my first lectures were a little rough, but the students were very tolerant...
...that to achieve peace, one must sometimes swallow hard. There was no pretense, no subterfuge, no attempt to convey any false emotion. It was, in short, a perfect expression of dugri, and it seems fitting that, as both a momentous event for Israel and a demonstration of the awkward, rough-hewn nobility that distinguished Rabin's life, it was the gesture that will also mark his place in history...
Women's films get to be different, and refreshingly so. They are about hugging, not punching; continuity, not apocalypses. Life's rough accommodations make survival, with wits intact, a kind of triumph. "Women tend to honor and validate daily life and human transaction," says Pillsbury, "and recognize that within the mundane the miraculous often exists. There are many ways to show that in films...
...Rabin was a special symbol for us," Israeli author David Grossman told TIME's Sam Allis. "He was our mythological Sabra. He symbolized a certain uniqueness in the Israeli people. This was murdered today. He was very simple, very straight-forward. His Hebrew was rough. He was a man of action, not of words. That was his charm in the eyes of Israel. He expressed exactly what he thought." Grossman predicted in September that there would be bloodshed between the Israeli government and right-wing extremists, Allis recalls, citing the Israelis who called Rabin "murderer" and "a traitor...