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Call her a scold, but if Israeli Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU and P.L.O. leader YASSER ARAFAT are still refusing to get off the dime on peace talks by the time she arrives in the Middle East next month, Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT plans to give them the not-so-diplomatic treatment she's becoming famous for: a blunt talking-to and a rap on the knuckles. Washington is frustrated with the game of diplomatic chicken that both sides have been playing. In several major speeches, Albright plans to lay out "what road they're headed down" if the talks...
...Montana sociologist Robert Balch, when Bo and Peep, as the founders then called themselves, went into hiding amid an early crisis, a disciple named Aaron led a faction that abetted beer drinking, pot smoking and sex--all activities disapproved of by Applewhite and Nettles. Bo and Peep reappeared to scold their flock, and a large number of dissenters departed. Heaven's Gate's cyberspace rants against unspecified "Luciferians" may partly be aimed at these more worldly schismatics...
Hamlet endures as a character because he is the embodiment of the unsatisfied soul. He is irritating and threatening, a scold, a drag. He is the relentless accuser and reproacher, who cries, "O shame! Where is thy blush?" But he is also part of the people he confronts; he is that "noble and most sovereign reason" within them too, which is why his unnerving presence among them eventually overthrows the status quo and winds up revolutionizing their world...
...Brian on the other end. (It turned out they were two different people--I spoke to both of them.) They were calling from North-western, where they were drunk and bored. I acted casually, as though I had half-expected their call, and passed up the chance to scold them for their harassment. I wasn't angry anymore, and I had lost all interest in their twisted comments...
...Kerry can sometimes sound like a scold, Weld always seems on the verge of poking fun. When he moved into the statehouse, Weld replaced Dukakis' portrait of Revolutionary hero Samuel Adams with one of James Michael Curley, the notoriously corrupt Boston mayor who once campaigned from prison. This summer the Governor pulled what an aide called a "pure Weld" when, after the signing of an environmental bill, he leaped fully clothed into the Charles River...