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...same token, with the total collapse of the Taliban, everything has changed. Omar has lost his robe. The Arab street is silent. The joy is gone. And recruitment? The Pakistani mullahs who after Sept. 11 had urged hapless young men to join the Taliban in fighting America and now have to answer to bereaved parents are facing ostracism and disgrace. Al-Qaeda agents roaming the madrasahs of Pakistan and the poorer neighborhoods of the Arab world will have a much harder sell. The syllogism of invincibility that sustained Islamic fanaticism is shattered...
...opposition to Oslo kept Hamas from challenging Arafat in the 1994 elections for the PA. It did, however, challenge and resoundingly defeat Fatah in many student council elections in the West Bank and Gaza. Still, there was always dialogue between the PA and Hamas, and periodic uneasy, silent agreements between them. In 1996, Hamas unleashed a wave of deadly bombings that killed 60 Israelis in eight days, prompting Arafat to clamp down heavily - some 1,000 Palestinians were arrested and the PA even ousted Hamas from some of its mosques. Later, the organizations appear to have negotiated a modus vivendi...
...alabaster to gave her the appearance of something made of stone. The cast and crew gasped when Aaliyah came onto the set, looking like some mythic creature. Even her eyes were covered with alabaster contacts (which, according to Rymer had been extremely painful to wear). Without a word, as silent as the statue she was playing, Aaliyah took her place on the set. Later, with the addition of special effects, her stone body would seem to crumble into the dust. The last scene Aaliyah shot for "The Queen of the Damned" was a death scene...
From the strictly traditional (Dinah Washington on “Silent Night”) to the commercially traditional (Jimmy Smith on “Jingle Bells”) to the decidedly un-traditional (Louis Armstong on “Zat You, Santa Claus”), there is hardly an errant note on their disc. Joe Williams, with his voice of liquid gold, oozes sophistication from every pore during “Let it Snow!” Sentimental and sweet without ever saccharine, Williams’ arrangement presents perhaps the best version of the song ever recorded. Pianist Bill Evans...
...paper had been put to bed. I discovered that Melanie R. Williams ’91, extraordinarily, could keep talking through the night. She chattered about future stories and her hometown in New York, while Dave A. Plotz ’93 and I got wearier and more silent. (Through the year, in desperate moments, Melanie would throw her fist into the air and cry, “Sleep is for the weak...