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...never got the chance. Today, though, with Rabin a martyr and Peres his successor, what was said back then is worth recording. Sitting in his spare Tel Aviv office--his clean desk marred only by an ashtray and the cigarettes he chain-smoked to distraction--Rabin began: "Shimon is in love with an idea, land for peace. Sometimes that's fine. Obviously we wouldn't have peace with Egypt if we hadn't given up the Sinai. But I worry that in seeking a larger peace, Peres, to prove that he's tough, might overreact in a way that...
Cantabrigians, students and others passing through the Square outside Au Bon Pain yesterday did not hear the familiar greetings from the man selling Spare Change newspapers...
...cases of AIDS were reported, that it would become such a grave and global problem. The E.U. feels sympathetic to Britain and wants to lessen its economic loss by possibly killing fewer cows than is necessary to eradicate the disease. It shows a good spirit to want to spare economic hardship, but this must not override the real concern about a potential large-scale spread of the disease in humans. Once the genie is out of bottle, it is hard to put it back in. The potentially contaminated beef may reach Third World countries. There is no shortage of corrupt...
...Personal web pages abound as a seeming antidote for those who can't get onto talk shows. "I masturbated three times today while checking out Hustler On-Line," read one home-page I saw today. Another went on to describe the "psychotic disfunctionality" of his family life. (I'll spare you the temptation by not printing the URLs.) People's thoughts, their actions, their lives, are increasingly seen as traffic in an ever-expanding public discourse...
Camaraderie is swell, but the play's the thing, and this year Humana had the goods. The big find was Naomi Wallace, a Kentucky native whose work has been produced by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company but virtually not at all in the U.S. Her luxuriously poetic One Flea Spare is set during the London plague of 1665, when "at night the rats came out in twos and threes to drink the sweat from our faces." The stage is a canvas of convulsive emotions and pristine images of four tortured refugees from the pestilence. Only a 12-year-old girl...