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...complex and contentious, often the subject of longwinded debates in American history circles. Some pundits say the United States suffers from a cultural divide. Americans don't have a common culture, they say; the American people comprise too many different cultures and possess too little national sentiment to sustain a single perspective (or even a single song). Certainly, something of what I've seen among my fellow Americans in Spain supports this argument. We come from very different communities; we represent different regions and ethnicities and viewpoints. My own perspective as an Asian-American male from New Jersey, for instance...
...cocktail, therapy. It's a simple idea: HIV mutates so fast it eventually becomes resistant to any drug that doctors throw at it. Two drugs, attacking the virus in two different biochemical ways, can keep HIV off balance and make its evasive tactics harder--though not impossible--to sustain. But even a slippery virus like HIV can't deal with a three- or four-pronged assault. So said computer models, at least. But until late last year, no one had come up with a third drug that could test the theory...
...most in peril would be Arafat, whose credibility with Palestinians is hardly high enough to sustain further disappointments. He desperately needs proof that his peace concessions have not been in vain and would profit from fast-paced discussions on the territories' final status, but he faces a new Israeli government more intent on slowing everything way down. Says Souheil Natoor of the hard-line Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine: "Now the Palestinians are saying to Arafat, 'You did whatever the Israelis asked of you. And the result is the Israelis voted against peace.' The Palestinians will...
...think it worked in the beginning and I think that the intentions were really noble," Song recalls. "It began as a diverse coalition...If you have a diversity of opinions, then you have a number of options and there's a higher probability that a heterogeneity of opinions will sustain an internal critique of any organization...
...bring off. That film, about a 12-year-old boy who makes a wish to become "big" and lives to regret that his prayers were answered, had two elusive qualities that get lost in translation: charm and impeccable taste. The movie is consciously scaled down and is able to sustain the dreamlike quality that a fairy tale needs to have. Onstage, Big blusters. There are squads of kids charging around, excellent dancers all, but they look like pint-size adults churning out routines. Nothing is left to chance or serendipity...