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...about what's holding back their political leaders from giving the green light. And the flirtation with various cease-fire proposals earlier in the week by the man in charge of Operation Cast Lead, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, has prompted a revival within the ranks of the nickname "Zig-Zag" - originally applied to Barak in reference to his skittish diplomacy as Prime Minister in 2000, ahead of the failed Camp David summit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Is the Gaza Ground War? | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...backhoe's work could be seen along a six-mile (10 km) stretch of the road from Tskhinvali to the Russian border. Gates and fences had been smashed down and piping bent into a crazy zig-zag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fanning Ethnic Flames in Georgia | 8/20/2008 | See Source »

...eyewitness told Israeli media that the driver tried to slam the bulldozer's blade onto a pedestrian, but "missed her by an inch". He added: "At first I thought it was an accident, but then he kept going in a zig-zag down the slope of King David, overturned a car and hit a few cars. The whole thing happened very quickly." The driver, identified as Rassan Abu Tir, 22, was shot and wounded by an armed civilian, but kept on driving until he was killed by shots from a Border Police officer. His bulldozer careened to a halt within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Rampage Near Obama's Hotel | 7/22/2008 | See Source »

...those who’ve seen pictures of Berlin’s Jewish Museum, actually arriving there can be a confusing experience. I had expected the surroundings to match Daniel Libeskind’s jagged zinc zig-zag of a building. As unlikely as such a construction might be in other cities, Berlin loves its cutting-edge architecture. And the museum fell along the border between the eastern and western parts of the city, suggesting that it might be part of one of the many deconstructionist paradises that sprang up on land formerly occupied by the Berlin Wall. Instead...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tragedy Given Shape In Berlin | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...months after Grease: a stupendous flop, Moment by Moment ($11 million). He had endured the first big up-down in a notably seismic career. Urban Cowboy boom, Two of a Kind bust; Staying Alive a zig, Perfect a zag. The sassy-baby Look Who's Talking was his top grosser since Grease; then he had another recession until Pulp Fiction pegged him as the cool bad guy and won him a string of hits. Another soft phase set in until this year's comedy smash Wild Hogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travolta's Latest Comeback | 7/18/2007 | See Source »

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