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...occupation. "The Israelis are allowing the Hawks to carry weapons on the streets," charges a Hamas member. A Palestinian was killed when Hawks opened fire on Hamas activists who threw stones at them in Gaza's Rafah refugee camp two weeks ago. Last week Fatah and Hamas engaged in tit-for-tat kidnappings of each other's members in Jabalia. The hostages were freed within 24 hours, but tension between the two main Palestinian groups remains high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace Postponed | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

When she turned 18, with seven French albums to her credit, Dion and her manager, Rene Angelil, who has orchestrated her career since she was 12, decided it was time to introduce her to the English-singing world. There was just one p'tit problem: the chanteuse had hardly ever spoken, much less sung, a word of English. Even as she rapidly learned the language, she was sometimes baffled by nuances. Producer Foster recalls a recording session in which he cheered Dion's best moments by shouting, "That's bitchin'!" Unfamiliar with the slang, Dion grew upset: she thought Foster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: The Power of Celine Dion | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...wave and people march and the grim realities of the past and, often, the present, are forgotten in a global surge of pride and unity. The reality has often been less inspiring -- in Hitler's Berlin in 1936, in the Munich beset by Palestinian terrorists in 1972, in the tit-for-tat cold war boycotts of 1980 and 1984, not to mention the myriad smaller moments when political bitterness or personal dishonor or random fate blemished the panorama of joyful striving. But whatever the misdeeds and mischances, the myth continually reasserts itself and endures. So it is always a surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finally, the Olympic Games | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

...Tit-for-tat abductions threaten a tenuous democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

...tit-for-tat criticism of Japanese and American cultures defies value judgments. The most unrepentant in the fast L.A. world of high stakes capitalism is Eddie Sakamura, fantastically played by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Eddie combines the sleaziest of instincts from both sides of the Pacific with a playful indifference...

Author: By John Aboud, | Title: Japanese, U.S. Cultures Clash In Tense Crichton Thriller | 7/30/1993 | See Source »

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