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...just as much as both sides need to keep the process going, neither side can afford to bring it to a conclusion any time soon. The denouement scripted by Washington in these final weeks has failed to tempt either Arafat or Barak to commit to their roles because its basic propositions contained the seeds of domestic political doom for both men. And that appears to be the reality President Clinton has failed to grasp in his attempt to pass the peacemaker baton to President-elect Bush. Right now, both sides can commit to an open-ended process that helps them...
...when Israel goes to the polls - presuming Netanyahu can prevail over the legal obstacles to his candidacy - and President Clinton would dearly like to close out on a note of triumph. The specter of a right-wing Israeli government and a more distant Bush administration will be used to tempt Arafat to conclude a final peace deal while his Camp David partners are still in place, although there's also considerable Palestinian skepticism about being stampeded into compromises with lame ducks. Palestinian sources have indicated that the Washington talks have been convened under pressure from the Americans and Israelis...
...power of democracy to change the way they're governed, and that has to have struck fear into the PRI pooh-bahs. Fox is starting out with a 70 percent approval rating, and that may make many PRI officials more inclined to cut deals with him than to tempt the ire of the electorate by openly opposing...
...last two must-see religious-themed Buñuel films draw their plotlines from actual historical events. "Simon of the Desert" (1965) is a low-budget production about a holy man who lives in a remote part of the desert, perched on a high pillar. The devil comes to tempt Simon, in the form of a sexy young woman (Silvia Pinal); for her final act, she shows this ascetic a vision of a modern day "black mass," taking him inside a noisy, sweaty, rockin' 1960s discotheque! "The Milky Way," Bunuel's final statement on Catholicism, is an episodic exploration...
...retrospect, we got too far ahead of ourselves. And so now the baseball gods have humbled us on account of our hubris. We dared to tempt fate, believing that the Sox might finally cast off the cursed mantle of 82 years of futility. But alas, our pride was found to be in excess and we were struck down in the sight of our enemies, namely the ever-loathsome front-runners who hail from the Bronx...