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There was never going to be a quick fix between Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak at the end of a week of rioting in which upward of 70 Palestinians and several Israelis have been killed. And the failure of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's latest effort to forge an agreement to end the violence may be a sign that the events of the past week have stiffened the Palestinian leader's resolve at the negotiating table. After storming out of a summit meeting in Paris Wednesday - and reportedly only being stopped by Secretary Albright running after him and shouting...
...life, Roach ran away from home and spent the next 14 years drinking, sleeping in parks, playing the guitar to earn enough for the next bottle. Finally, he dried out and began writing and singing songs, including his 1987 hit, Took the Children Away, which launched him on an upward musical career. But, he says, "I still feel the pain, every day. Sometimes it threatens to engulf me. But I'm not going to let it destroy...
...ridge in the woods and is made from discarded tires and old timber as well as slate dredged from a creek. All the materials are humble, yet Yancey is anything but pedestrian. With a font whose water trickles through the sanctuary, clerestory openings to the sky and an upward-sweeping roof cupped like hands set in prayer, the chapel is a sublime embodiment of worship...
Continuing its steady upward climb this season, the Harvard men's golf team finished an impressive sixth out of 18 schools last weekend at the Dartmouth Invitational in Hanover...
...minds of swing voters in battleground states), but they do smudge Gore's efforts to project himself as a friend of the Earth. So much so, in fact, that the Gore campaign is at pains to point out that the Gore family holdings in Occidental Petroleum (worth upward of $500,000) are the property of his father's estate, of which Gore is executor but not currently a beneficiary. And, they add, he's leaving the U'wa matter to the State Department...