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...meet Yasser Arafat, a man he considered little more than a terrorist. Last week, however, Netanyahu was finally nudged into a handshake with the Palestinian leader. It was an enormous psychological hurdle for the Israeli leader. His Palestinian partners, though, felt as if they were beginning a relationship from scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD HANDS | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...aspect of the game, Harvard--and everyone else--will have to start from scratch. The NCAA decided to scratch the offsides rule while still allowing players to shoot anywhere from inside the 25-yard line, which should lead to a wideopen game with lots of goals...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Stickwomen Search for Footing | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

...document, Azulai-Katz said. Two senior Israeli officials have denied that any such promise was made. McGeary reports that the report could further complicate the strained relations between Syria and the new Israeli government. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Clinton this week that he wants to start from scratch in talks with the Syrians. Assad insists that negotiations pick up where they left off with Rabin's government. "Syria will never be willing to settle for less than the entire Golan in return for peace," McGeary says. "They are letting Netanyahu know that they had a better offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book: Rabin Promised Golan To Syria | 9/11/1996 | See Source »

...aspect of the game, Harvard--and everyone else--will have to start from scratch. The NCAA decided to scratch the offsides rule while still allowing players to shoot anywhere from inside the 25-yard line, which should lead to a wide-open game with lots of goals...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Field Hockey Faces Many Questions | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...Netscape is paired with Sun Microsystems' Java, a programming language that has won the fierce but possibly ephemeral allegiance of Silicon Valley's software jocks (the Netscape/Java alliance, a giddy Sun executive hyperbolized last year, "is the last great hope to stop Microsoft world domination"). Java is starting from scratch, though, and it could take painfully long for its adherents to produce high-quality applications. Microsoft's Active-X platform, by contrast, supports both Java and the venerable Visual Basic language, at which the company's army of content partners is already adept. Microsoft is starting the browser game late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIRST WEB WAR | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

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