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...geography is different. In the Sinai, 250 km of desert separate Israel from that part of Egypt west of Suez. The widest area that separates us from the Syrians on the Golan is 23 km. I have said that I am ready to add a territorial dimension to the negotiations, but I don't want to negotiate the size of it before I know that Syria is ready for a peace that is not conditional on a comprehensive peace. We always strive for a comprehensive peace, but it has to be built on bilateral bridges. If we do not reach...
...arts administrator put in by Bush to replace John Frohnmayer, who was fired to appease Pat Buchanan's distorted and ranting attacks on the NEA during the early primaries. Radice told a House subcommittee on appropriations that "if we find a proposal that does not have the widest audience . . . we just can't afford to fund that." At a May conference at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art she declared that, despite the acrid controversy over NEA policy in the arts community, "blood is thicker than water, and we have to stick together to save the NEA." This...
Some of the skepticism exists because the truce does not cover all Crips and Bloods factions. Nor does it affect the city's more violent Latino and Asian gangs. One of the widest and most organized peace efforts involves about 12,000 black gang members in four Bloods and three Crips "sets," or factions, within a 3.5-sq.-mi. area of South Central. The Monday after the riots, their leaders came to Norman seeking his help in keeping their peace. There were unity meetings between members of at least 100 gang sets in housing projects and other locations. Norman hopes...
...find a proposal that does not have the widest audience . . . even though it may have been done with the highest intentions, we just can't afford to fund that...
...have flown over this state, where the Napoleonic Code still prevails and French is often the first language in the southwestern Cajun country. Louisiana has been home to trumpeter Louis Armstrong, disgraced televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, demagogue Huey Long and author Walker Percy. The state, which has the nation's widest gap between rich and poor, is a quirky mix of Catholic and Protestant, oil and sugarcane, jazz and Zydeco...