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...When you shook Arafat's hand in Washington, you managed a smile. Or was it a grimace...
...Bush, thought time had done its work as he watched the tableau of peace. He had convened meetings, pushing the old adversaries together at Madrid 23 months ago. Clinton knew how much that legwork had counted. He reached through three rows of people to make sure Arafat and Rabin shook hands with Baker...
...suicide, we must strive to learn something from this history. In Eco's conception, exclusive responsibility cannot be foisted onto to a Gardini or a Cagliari. When it is possible to see through to a more malignant crisis, as the Tangentopoli in Italy, the whole national psyche must be shook into a greater self-awareness...
...small ( hospital in Tibnin, a Lebanese village just 7 1/2 miles from the Israeli border, was bleary-eyed but still clearheaded. "The Syrians and Iranians," he explained, "are fighting a war against the Israelis here in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese pay . . . pay . . . pay." As he spoke, high-explosive shells shook the walls of the hospital. "We Arabs say the strong always devour the weak," he shouted above the din. "Lebanon is the weakest country in the Middle East...
That revolution was taken over in July 1989 by the Siberian coal miners when they began a strike that shook the economy and the communist bosses. The grimy miners, Remnick reports, were forging a link between the urban intellectuals, the nationalist movements in non-Russian republics, and "the political uprising of workers across the country...