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Rabin was visibly distressed as he shook Arafat's eager hand. The Prime Minister began his remarks that day by calling the signing "not so easy" for himself or for the Jewish people in the Diaspora, who, he said, were "watching with great hope and apprehension...
...reassuring to hear Rabin give expression to the intense, yet mixed feelings present in the pro-Israel community. We wished the Palestinian leader who shook Rabin's hand would be a courageous leader, like Sadat, who flouted Arab rejectionism and flew to Jerusalem in pursuit of peace. Instead, we were greeted by Arafat's grinning visage on the cover of Time magazine...
...shook his head, shifted to regather command over the 15-pound bag of hamburger meet in his left hand and the 24-pack of Bud in his right, and shot one of those I'm-going-to-say-something-really-profound-looks straight...
Chris Santella was feeding his infant daughter last Tuesday evening in the living room of his town house in Rochester, New York, when he heard the boom. "It was like someone slammed a door hard enough so that it shook the house," he explained. At first he thought it was his water heater blowing up. When no gushers of water followed, he waited until the child was asleep before looking out his door and catching sight of the blasted-out window in a town house 25 ft. away, the one rented by a woman named Pamela Lazore-Lanza. A bomb...
...years ago in April 1968, it was Columbia University President Grayson Kirk's banning of indoor demonstrations that began a series of confrontations that shook Columbia for two years...