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...accommodate irreconcilable forces and had clearly seen that half measures were hardly going to bring domestic peace and renewed economic growth. De Klerk also had a natural interest in his own political future. In 1985 he had asked two consultants what he should do to succeed Botha; they both told him to soften his image on the necessity of preserving apartheid. This, cautiously, he began to do. Upon taking office, De Klerk announced, ''Our goal is a totally changed South Africa.'' In December 1989 he convened a historic bosberaad, or bush council, at which he won his Cabinet's authorization...
...rule by force over 1.5 million Palestinians.'' Annexing the occupied territories would dilute the Jewish character of Israel, he believed. But military rule would mean endless war. In the 1992 elections, Rabin campaigned as the man who could bring the country peace with security. But to succeed, Rabin told Israelis, they would have to relinquish a central part of their identity -- their sense of fearful isolation. ''For many years, by necessity, by threat from wars, terror,'' he explains...
...circumstances a ripeness of moment -- and that they acted. They worked in pairs at their two separate projects, even though something inside each man came to the rendezvous reluctantly, uncomfortably -- faute de mieux, as if history had given him no choice. Each needed his other, absolutely, in order to succeed -- and each knew it. Each of the men was putting himself at enormous personal risk in the enterprise -- not now from his long-sworn enemy but from those on his own side who would cry betrayal. But each had the armor of his record in the struggle. Just as only...
...Bernanke knows he's filling big shoes. So when President Bush chose the White House's relatively new top economic adviser to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Bernanke professed alignment with the Maestro. The "top priority," he said, will be to "maintain continuity" with Greenspan's way of doing things...
...first seems comparatively normal—for “help” in progressively outrageous ways. Raucous comedy, more pointed and risqué than in the other works, ensues. The result, however, was not overtly offensive but managed to make viewers just uncomfortable enough to succeed dramatically...