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...that Israel and the Palestinian Authority can find their way to peace through bilateral negotiations - are fast becoming an endangered species. (Indeed, the only mainstream Israeli leader who still talks in these terms is Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and even in his own Labor Party his views are considered somewhat eccentric.) The deteriorating situation on the ground may soon leave Washington and its allies with the choice of either letting the two sides bleed, or else contemplating the politically perilous notion of forcibly separating them...
That was the third huge mistake--and a somewhat baffling conclusion to draw, given the evidence at hand. In spring of 2001, Ahmed Ressam, the "millennium bomber," was on trial in Los Angeles, charged with being part of a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport and other locations at the end of 1999. In her press conference last week, Rice conceded that in 2001 the FBI "was involved in a number of investigations of potential al-Qaeda personnel operating in the United States...
Going through "Goya: Images of Women," the exhibition presented at the National Gallery of Art in Washington by the leading American Goya scholar Janis Tomlinson--it is a somewhat truncated version of a large show that was seen at the Prado in Madrid last winter--one realizes what depth and intensity Goya brought to seeing his world. The late 18th and early 19th century in Europe had portraitists who could extract gripping narratives of sympathy and experience from the individual human face and body. Delacroix, Ingres, David--it is a long and glorious list. But the most fascinating of them...
...island." Don't even try to put John Donne's pretty, if by now somewhat threadbare, metaphor over on Hugh Grant's Will. Perfectly self-absorbed and perfectly content with that condition, he has pretty much convinced himself that, actually, every man is an island. Long ago, his father wrote one of those awful, seasonally ubiquitous Christmas songs, and Will has lived on the royalties ever since, never holding a job, never marrying, never doing anything with his life but shooting pool, getting his hair done and chasing babes. As islands go, he thinks he's Ibiza, where the emotional...
Since 1978, lower courts have relied on a somewhat tortured Supreme Court ruling that struck down quota systems and sent white, would-be medical student Allan Bakke to school. But it also ruled that universities could continue to consider applicants' race in the "compelling interest" of diversity. Lower courts have viewed Bakke differently: pro-affirmative action universities in the Fifth Circuit's jurisdiction feel legal victories are unlikely, but those in the Sixth are heartened by the Michigan case. The fact that lower courts have interpreted Bakke in divergent ways may lead the Supreme Court to hear Grutter's appeal...