Word: sullenness
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders don't want a war, but they can't exactly afford to sign a peace agreement, either. And it's in the sullen no-man's-land between the two options that Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat are once again tentatively reaching out to each other. But judging from the proposals being floated by the Palestinian Authority right now, the talks both men will hold with President Clinton in Washington later this weeks are more likely to be exploratory "talks about talks" than any kind of speedy resumption of the Oslo Accord-based peace process that...
...glory days that unfolded before the Beatles played Ed Sullivan. CNN underscored this early in the night by featuring a panel of whippersnapper journalists - The Weekly Standard's Tucker Carlson, Salon's Jake Tapper, TIME's Tamala Edwards - who in this "Big Chill" context came across like the sullen kids' table at the Woodstock reunion. (So enough about the baby boom, Gen X: What do you think of the baby boom?) It's hard to believe Kennedy was addressing them when he declared, "Today, our generation faces its own New Frontier." Um, our generation, Grampa...
Along East Sprague, where the clamor of freight trains punctuates the night and the Rainbow Tavern advertises "cold beer and hot women," a giant billboard remains standing. In large black letters it demands HELP US FIND OUR KILLER! above photographs--some smiling, some sullen--of Sherry, Shannon and Shawn, of Melody, Melinda and Michelyn, of Sunny, Heather, Laurie and Linda. The first three bodies turned up in 1990 along forested roadsides outside Spokane. Another was found two years later, then another...
Normally, you would not invite Nader, Hoffa and Buchanan to the same dinner party. But anti-globalization makes strange bedfellows, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend. What unites the three now, in Hoffa's mind anyway, is the sullen desperation of the excluded. Excluded from what? The festival of the Nasdaq, the great gated community of the Bobos, the money fair. Teamster Hoffa all but endorses the Green Party's Nader as a friend of American labor and an enemy of the NAFTA, GATT, and normalization of relations with China. Buchanan, says Hoffa, is good on globalization...
...handshake was an epic gesture of mutual recognition of each other's legitimacy, which neither side has been prepared to make over decades of low-intensity war and sullen peace. President Kim backed it up with a statement, released to the media, which proclaimed, "Compatriots in the North: We are one people. We share the same fate. Let us hold hands firmly. I love you all." The two men then climbed into a limousine that carried them off to talks at an undisclosed location, reportedly holding hands for much of the journey...