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...distinguished visiting professorship culminated in a speech I gave to about a hundred students--a turnout I was very proud of until I asked for a show of hands from those getting extra credit for being there. The speech, I learned from posters on campus, was called "Modern Magazines--Real News or Just a Lot of Chads?" I had no idea what this meant either. So I started off the lecture by saying yes, magazines were now indeed just a lot of chads and then spent the rest of the time talking about myself...
Ariel Sharon, a military general and seasoned political veteran whom many had written off in Israeli politics because of his advancing age and checkered past, will soon be prime minister of Israel. Last Tuesday's election sported the largest margin of victory, albeit with the lowest turnout, of any election in Israel's history. Indeed, it seems that the Israeli public, weary of rioting Palestinians and rejected offers of peace, has given the signal to put a hold on a peace process that seemed just a few months ago to be closer than ever to settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...want to apologize for the section time; I have been told that we did not expect nearly the turnout we have received. In fact, we assumed this would be one of those courses listed in the course book that no one would actually take. Tuesday-Thursday 8:30 to 11:00? A midterm, a final, two research papers and an interpretative dance? I mean, come on! But then again, no one expected eminent professors of the Iliad, the Boston Brahmin and of anything Italian-American to decide to take the semester off to align their shakras, then...
...sure, it was an election lost by Barak more than it was won by Sharon. And while the low turnout is certainly an expression of deep disillusion with Barak's peacemaking efforts, it's also a sign that many Israelis viewed Tuesday's poll as nothing more than an interim election - The Likud leader inherits the same parliament that brought down Barak, and unless he's able to beat expectations by persuading Barak's party to join him in a unity government, he'll be forced to field a minority coalition that could collapse at any point...
...sign of Israel's deep disillusion with the peace process. Sharon didn't win as much as Barak lost. Too many of the prime minister's natural supporters stayed away from the polls, in protest over his handling of negotiations and the Palestinian uprising. Early polls indicate a turnout as low as one in three eligible voters, reflecting the usually active electorate's distaste for the choice it faced. The result, if anything, reflects a massive protest against Barak by his own constituency, who'd been left depressed and confused by the events of the past six months. A protest...