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...best suited to negotiate the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip? He argues that the Wye accord proves he can make peace, and that it is better to have a right-winger bargain over the final pact than a leftist who will make a sucker deal. It's a powerful argument, Netanyahu knows, and one that keeps him in the running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Who Would Be Bibi | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...skin-tight leather pants, Persson sang with harnessed intensity and a flirtatious half-smile, as if her very appearance were a wicked, illicit joke between her and the audience. For the dark, menacing songs about the hardness of love that she presented, the coy, harsh delivery was like a sucker punch; she could talk about love's cruel ways not because she was the injured lover, but because she was the cruelty of love in the flesh...

Author: By Jared S. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Cardigans Offer A Night of Ghastly Energy, Vigor | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...Thanksgiving hiatus, those of us stuck in Cambridge must endure yet another second-rate college weekend. The three days ahead, billed as Harvard's greatest gas, have yet to live up. Harvard-Yale weekend, in all her sexy splendor, is really just a big tease and everyone's her sucker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: groovy train | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...Muslim, a lover of film and television, and a sucker for military intrigue movies, I decided to see the movie for myself. To get a more objective perspective, I invited Ramy M. Adeeb '00 and Mustafa M. Siddiqui '00 to join me. Adeeb, a Christian, is from Egypt, and Siddiqui, a Muslim, lives in Houston; his family is originally from Pakistan...

Author: By Murad S. Hussain, | Title: IDENTITIES UNDER SIEGE | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...look out into giant cement mausoleums. One possible explanation for the overwhelming length of this project is generous snack breaks for the workers. Granted these guys work hard, but do $27,000 a month of taxpayers money need to be spent on little Debbie snack cakes? Another big fund-sucker is the fish initiative that concerned many local environmentalists. To ensure the safety of the Greater Boston fish population, workers use machines that emit sound waves to drive those crazy mating lobsters deeper into...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Dig This. | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

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