Word: taboo
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That goal will remain elusive until Israel and the Palestinians come to terms on the so-called final-status issues that require the toughest compromises. The antagonists came close in a series of taboo-shattering discussions begun at Camp David in 2000 that nearly concluded before President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Ehud Barak both left office in early 2001. If negotiations ever do resume, Arafat wants to start where those talks left off. But Sharon has revoked previous Israeli offers. Here are the four chief obstacles to peace in the Middle East...
...That will likely prompt a huge mobilization of centrist opinion of the left and right to negate that extremist sentiment by giving Chirac a huge margin of victory in the second round. But that won't reverse the fact that France has dispensed with a taboo here: They've got a neo-fascist into the second round of a presidential campaign, because enough French people are buying his message of law and order through curbing immigration...
...though, the practice bears a stigma of inbreeding just this side of incest. The taboo is not only social (the Jerry Lee Lewis syndrome) but legislative: 24 states ban the marriage of first cousins; five others allow it only if the couple is unable to bear children. A major reason for this ban is the belief that kids of first cousins are tragically susceptible to serious congenital illnesses...
...That goal will remain elusive until Israel and the Palestinians come to terms on the so-called final-status issues that require the toughest compromises. The antagonists came close in a series of taboo-shattering discussions begun at Camp David in 2000 that nearly concluded before President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Ehud Barak both left office in early 2001. If negotiations ever do resume, Arafat wants to start where those talks left off. But Sharon has revoked previous Israeli offers. Here are the four chief obstacles to peace in the Middle East...
...Once taboo, talk of the Pope's retirement is openly heard in some Vatican circles. Though retirement is allowed under church law, no one has renounced the papacy since Gregory XII in the 15th century. After John Paul was unable to lead the Palm Sunday procession, Vittorio Messori, a Catholic commentator who has interviewed the Pope at length, wrote a front-page article in the Milan daily Corriere della Sera that offered the first open questions from church conservatives on the matter. "Even with all the trust in the Holy Spirit, can the church live with such uncertainty?" Messori cited...