Word: yitzhak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prognosticators try to get in under the wire. The Internet, that electronic jungle drum, vibrates to the beat of prophecy. Much of it is in the religious, apocalyptic tradition. Just about any recent event, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, is taken by some as a sign of the impending Doomsday or the flowering of the Peaceable Kingdom. Countless secular predictions also sway between doom and hope. Socialist Utopias are out of fashion, but belief in free-market cornucopias is rivaled by nightmares of savage Blade Runner cities...
...Everybody watched the handshake on the White House lawn," said Ashrawi--referring to the 1993 meeting between Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and the late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin--"and they assumed there was peace...
...Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated...
...libido. From approximately my waist down to my knees, I felt like the Invisible Man. I tried another drug, Effexor, but didn't like the trembling in my hands. Next came Wellbutrin. It packed a punch. The week I started taking it I was watching CNN when news of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination broke. I wept through the night and the following day. Oddly, the crying felt good, like a catharsis, and I wondered if my reaction to the tragedy--far from being excessive or drug related--wasn't in fact the genuinely human one. But 12 hours later, still...
...bridge the chasm between two such mistrustful adversaries. And those ideas work, says Richard Haass, Middle East adviser under President George Bush, "only if the President is willing to back them up." Clinton could bask in the South Lawn signing of the 1993 agreement because Arafat and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin were willing to make peace on their own. The test for Clinton now is whether he is prepared to weigh in when the two leaders aren't willing...