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...with Israel's neighbors. During his campaign for the office of Prime Minister, he has moderated his hard line on Yasser Arafat, saying recently that he would negotiate with the Palestinian leader. Despite the high stakes, the campaign has been run in an uncharacteristically restrained manner for the usually rough and tumble world of Israeli politics. "It has been an extraordinarily calm day," says TIME's Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer. "After Rabin's assassination, the Israeli people have become rather wary of extremism...
...startling that his target market would feel they just had to have it was to concentrate on speed--sticking to fast (but expensive) silicon cartridges as his storage medium and leapfrogging ahead to the next-generation 64-bit processors. (The number of bits a chip can crunch is a rough measure of its power. The old Atari games ran on 8-bit machines; Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo are 16-bit systems...
...which the Republicans have nothing much to suggest (wage stagnation, middle-class angst), "character" is naturally a tempting theme. Part of the answer lies with the media. Skeptical scrutiny of Presidents, it seems, is on a permanent upward ratchet. This is a good thing, by and large, but rough on the incumbent. And part of the answer lies with Clinton himself. Not that his moral failings are worse than other politicians'. But his relative youth (which is not his fault) and his occasional callowness (which is) deprive him of gravitas...
...pair of pending libel suits--led publisher Martin Peretz to ask for Sullivan's resignation at a meeting last Thursday morning. Peretz has declined to comment. In an interview with TIME, Sullivan insisted that his leaving was "absolutely my decision." Yet he admitted that the magazine is a "rough-and-tumble place" and that internecine tensions existed. "I wanted to challenge the world a little, and I made some mistakes," he said. "But my responsibility is to the readers, and if that meant occasionally infuriating a colleague or two, so be it." No word yet on who will replace Sullivan...
Struggling to hang on to third place, Cornell (10-16, 3-5) suffered a rough weekend, winning only one of its two games against Brown before being swept by Yale...