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According to Edington, Gomes hoped that the mission would unfold as a collaboration between the more mainstream Memorial Church and other Christian groups at Harvard, particularly those in the evangelical tradition...
...Jerusalem now, you're not going to get them to compromise on refugees now, and you're not even going to get them to compromise on borders now," he says. "What you will produce is both sides focusing on the issues that give them the hardest line." Watching events unfold from the West Wing last week, one U.S. official sighed and said, "Better late than never." When it comes to the Middle East, that qualifies as optimism...
...fair to assume that there are places Yasser Arafat would rather be than imprisoned in his own compound with Israeli tank commanders as wardens. But it's not by mistake that he wound up there. Even if Arafat didn't anticipate exactly how the situation would unfold, this is a war he wanted...
...still hope that Yasser Arafat could ever be Israel's partner in peace, but many now feel that his predicament could become the catalyst of a much larger conflict. If it began to unfold, it could unleash pent-up forces and take on a disastrous momentum of its own. When the possibility arose that Arafat might be killed in the ruins of his headquarters, there was undisguised panic among Arab governments. What they dreaded also greatly alarmed their European counterparts, as well as the U.S. and even the Israelis themselves: uncontrollable mass demonstrations in Arab capitals that might compel reluctant...
There are trade-offs in design too. The PowerLock is built around a pair of gears that give you extra leverage when you're plying your pliers; they also give the whole tool a deliciously smooth unfolding action--it's the only one you can actually flip open one-handed. (The gears also give the tool a complicated look I find irresistible.) On the downside, the PowerLock has its blades positioned along its inside edges, so you have to unfold it into pliers mode to use them. Awkward...