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That perception was not lost in Jerusalem. Already torn over the wisdom of engaging in a negotiation that will require Israel to give up most or all of the Golan Heights at a time when Israelis are still digesting territorial concessions to the Palestinians, the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was looking for a bolder, plainer statement of Syrian intentions. The usually optimistic Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, found the public remarks "too positive to be disappointing, but too general to be satisfactory...
...audience to soak up what is being billed as the final installment in Stone's Vietnam trilogy ("Platoon," "Born on the Fourth of July"). Based on the autobiographical memoirs of Le Ly Haslip, the movie chronicles the harrowing odyssey of a Vietnamese woman as she trades her war-torn homeland for an alien America. Jones, who plays Sgt. Steve Butler, Le Ly's jaded and abusive G.I. husband, says the film is "not about war, but more about the soul." The movie, which is written and directed by Stone, also stars Joan Chen ("The Last Emperor"), academy-award winner...
...pictures from Rolling Stone pose the question why, after years of star-gazing, we still find these faces affecting. Perhaps we needed time's wear and tear to catch up with the overnight ravages shown in the portraits selected for this celebrity retrospective. Janis Joplin is slumped on a torn couch clutching a bottle of Southern Comfort; a slumbering Keith Richards slides off a folding chair. Others superstars appear to take fame in stride: a youthful Arnold Schwarzenegger mugs like a film noir actor of the '40s; and a yet-to-be- President Ronald Reagan calmly awaits his greatest...
...French-Canadian neighbors. The Irish were followed by Greeks, Poles, Scots, Portuguese, French Canadians and Italians, all escaping economic and political chaos in their native land. Today Hispanics, mostly from Puerto Rico, make up 35% of the Acre's 15,000 population. Vietnamese and Cambodians who fled their war-torn countries and moved to Lowell in the mid- 1980s constitute another 30%. While Lowell's overall unemployment stands at 8%, in the Acre it is close...
...Cornell-sponsored art exhibit featuring a multi-paneled work titled "The Castle is Burning" was torn apart and defaced with swastikas by vandals on Nov. 19, Cornell student John Guzman told The Boston Globe...