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...River" in stage and film versions of "Show Boat." He was a star in American and British movies, a magnetic concert basso, a sensation as Othello opposite Peggy Ashcroft in London and Uta Hagen on Broadway, a prescient advocate for African self-determination. He was also a stubborn apologist for communism, Stalin-style. In one Promethean personality were packed the power, glamour, pathos and tragedy of black dreams and leftist myopia in the 20th century...
...never accepted Israel's right to exist spearhead the suicide-bombing campaign, while Israeli tanks, under a Prime Minister who has always opposed the Oslo process, roll back into the patches of territory laboriously ceded to the Palestinians since '93. The knottiest of these issues may be the two stubborn old commanders, Sharon and Arafat. Both believe that violence pays, and neither can bear the thought of negotiating with the other. There's nothing in Colin Powell's briefcase to change that...
Talk about grabbing George W. Bush's attention: the President finally saw that he had gone down the wrong road, and he pulled a quick U-turn. When he stepped up to the Rose Garden podium Thursday morning, Bush ended more than a year of stubborn disengagement from the Middle East peace process, sending Secretary of State Colin Powell to the region to seek a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Bush's speech was tough and elegant. "The storms of violence cannot go on," he said. "Enough is enough...
...never accepted Israel's right to exist spearhead the suicide-bombing campaign, while Israeli tanks, under a Prime Minister who has always opposed the Oslo process, roll back into the patches of territory laboriously ceded to the Palestinians since '93. The knottiest of these issues may be the two stubborn old commanders, Sharon and Arafat. Both believe that violence pays, and neither can bear the thought of negotiating with the other. There's nothing in Colin Powell's briefcase to change that...
...talked to Heff after Pete’s game about suddenly realizing that it was all over, that the stubborn part of me that still aspired to be Christian Laettner or Grant Hill had died with the realization that Pete was already doing it. He replied, “Well, I guess that?...