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...Dutchmen converted only one of their six power play attempts, demonstrating the Crimson’s defensive strength throughout the game. But the team did not overlook its breakdown in the last six minutes...
...other international pressure in the name of anticommunist solidarity. Financial sanctions were beginning to bite and the price of maintaining the status quo was beginning to appear prohibitive. De Klerk, to his credit, realized that his people had more to gain from negotiating from a position of relative strength. And the political unrest in the black townships, combined with the expanding sanctions and growing isolation, helped him make the case to his own electorate...
...Rabin - who embraced the Oslo process after calculating that Israel could not forever count on unconditional U.S. support - and also for Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. Rabin's cost-benefit analysis told him that Israel's best interests required moving toward a two-state solution from a position of strength, and the Palestinian leadership recognized that, as much as they desired a return to the homes and land they lost in 1948, the balance of forces made that a futile goal. They decided to instead seek a state in the West Bank and Gaza as a more limited, but attainable...
...Alaska. She quickly corrected herself and said "national issues," but she probably shouldn't have: current events is American for "policy." It is the high school term of art for the hour each week when students are forced to study the state of the world. Palin's great strength is that the vernacular, rather than focus-group language, is her default position. At the end of the interview, Wallace asked what role she wanted to play in the country's future. "Well, first and foremost, I want to be a good mom," she replied. And then, in closing, Wallace asked...
...Back in Greece, the economic news is being followed with obsessive intensity. Widows in black are chattering about "the spread" - the premium investors demand to buy Greek debt - while the country's unions are mustering their strength, hoping to show the government they will not accept pay and benefit cuts quietly. Thousands of public sector workers and their supporters took to the drizzly streets of Athens on Wednesday to protest the government's proposed austerity measures, which include a 10% cut on bonuses, which make up a large percentage of many state employees' total wages, and increases in the retirement...