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Arab and Jew is not David Shipler's first book-length attempt to explain a foreign culture to an American audience. In 1983, he published Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams based upon his four years in the Soviet Union, where he served as a correspondent and later bureau chief for The New York Times. While Shipler says it was much easier to be a reporter in Israel than in Russia--"Israel is a flagrantly open society"--in both countries he faced the difficulty of reporting on a society about which many Americans had strong preconceptions...
...first official confirmation by Machel's government came more than 12 hours after dos Santos said in his first announcement on the radio that the president's jet had not returned on schedule from Zambia. The radio played solemn music throughout...
...here," he said, "if you happen to be a monk." Among those joining the three days of discussions and routines: Art Buchwald, Robert Klein, Mark Russell, Mort Sahl and Chevy Chase, Cartoonists Jeff MacNelly and Berke Breathed, assorted presidential speechwriters and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who broke a solemn vow against singing in public by serenading Betty Ford with When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. Muttered O'Neill as he shambled off the stage: "Who talked me into doing that...
...zero inflation, a 3.5% growth rate and a $25 billion trade surplus during the first six months of the year. In personal appeal, Rau, who married only four years ago, has two young children and whose wife is expecting a third, might have an advantage over the rather stodgy, solemn-faced Kohl. But the cumulative effect of his party's platform, particularly the prospect of much higher energy costs if nuclear power is scrapped, will almost certainly prove costly...
...motherly way, their "house--the large and impressive second floor of a building located a stone's throw away from the Congress. Its walls bear the eerie reminder of the dirty war: thousands of black and white snap-shots, each with a name and a date, hang in solemn rows behind protective glass; and the shelves of an overflowing glass case sag under the weight of homemade trinkets sent to the mothers as gifts of moral support from all over the world. Here the mothers meet and work. Here they write the speeches that cap off their weekly protests. Here...