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...difficulty of that cannot be overstated. For decades, Arafat and other Arab leaders would not even utter the word Israel. When they absolutely had to name the enemy, they referred to "the Zionist entity." On the Israeli side, former Prime Minister Golda Meir denied there were any such people as Palestinians, and one of her successors, Yitzhak Shamir, implied that Palestinians are not quite human; he described them as "grasshoppers compared...
...partly from unconvincing accents and tatty wigs. The big problem is that MacNicol, normally deft and winsome, fails to muster charm. The plays see life through these men's eyes and effectively excuse their sins. MacNicol's romantic devastation in the opening piece suggests peevishness, not agony. His utter ruin in the second piece is so shallowly felt that it arouses far less sympathy than a traffic accident fleetingly glimpsed through a car window...
...from the Jordan, the sleepy oasis-green town of Jericho is a contrast to Gaza, where the intifadeh uprising has virtually destroyed the economy. The intifadeh has had far less impact in Jericho, where the residents, by comparison with the utter poverty in Gaza, are almost prosperous. Townspeople have heard that Arafat will visit soon, and like most of them, 73-year-old Ahmed Ali Missad says he will be in the street to cheer him. If he comes, says Missad, "it will mean peace. We all want peace." But even here, Palestinians can't suppress the fear that self...
...committed to the advancement of education in the arts within this institution, regardless of whom their audience may be, to demand "Veritas" in this most disturbing matter. Do not again allow two faces on the arts to be visible, or again from one side of the mouth utter "Let's celebrate the arts at Harvard," and from the other side say "Let's eliminate the 'Mother of the movement!'" The Le Corbusier edifice at 24 Quincy Street stands now in disorder, its hallowed walls bear the stains of the abhorrent act perpetrated within and the unacceptable tactics (better served...
...Attorney General, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the State Department had reached the nirvana of farce--that is, their utter incompetence started to spawn conspiracy theories. "Rahman must be an informant, or else he'd been in jail by now," the Oliver Stone fans began...