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...based mostly in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, is not much help to its hosts. Islamabad is leaning heavily on the seven resistance leaders to propose, as an alternative to Najib's regime, a transitional government acceptable to Moscow and Kabul. "Zia is telling us not to be so stubborn," said one of the seven. Last week they agreed that a new government would be open to "good Muslims," but the proposal appeared too vague to have any practical value for Islamabad...
Like water running over stone, the novels of Aharon Appelfeld slowly make a deep impression. Badenheim 1939 (1980), The Age of Wonders (1982), To the Land of the Cattails (1986) are imperceptibly abrasive, patient and stubborn in their scourings. Appelfeld's recurring subject is daily life just before and after Hitler's war against the Jews. The central crimes of the period need no enhancement, having been passed directly into the stream of conscience by the unadorned testimony of the survivors...
...thicket of dark trees he would peer at night from the height of his apartment and search for the love who awaited him there. Exactly what she looked like he could not say at the time. She was exquisitely beautiful, he was certain of that: gentle and intelligent, quiet, stubborn, funny, kind. Sometimes he imagined that he would swoop from his window into the park like a glider, landing gracefully, noiselessly before her. Off they would fly together, eventually to marry. But after a while he would leave her to test new waters, and she would write her life upon...
Dukakis, in contrast, sometimes campaigns like he is already there. He carefully calibrates his promises and commitments, confident in the faith that he may soon be asked to fulfill them. That may partly explain his stubborn reluctance to offer a realistic plan to stanch the deficit; he was defeated for re-election as Massachusetts Governor in 1978 largely because he raised taxes. For all Dukakis' unquestioned managerial competence, there are also hints that the blandness of his vision reflects a certain constriction of the soul. When he speaks of his passions (housing, education), he seems to be reciting them...
State and federal officials said they were determined to resolve the standoff without bloodshed. The police fired no shots, out of concern for the children in the compound and perhaps out of sensitivity to the events of nine years ago. Inside the fortified cabin, the spirit of the stubborn patriarch was very much alive...