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...have other plans," declared Zayad, 47, as he toured the city last week, wearing a yellow T shirt that bore the message RIGHTS TO NAZARETH MUNICIPALITY. "This city is terrible," he said. "There is not one library here, not one museum, not one sports stadium or traffic signal. City hall is an antiquity." Indeed, the city hall is a rundown pile of stone that looks much like a prison-which in fact is what it used to be. Zayad's father was an inmate there in 1936 after an Arab uprising against the British rulers of what was then...
...gifted artist, and they worked out an unusually harmonious balance between their talents. After staying a few weeks with the young couple in 1912, Apollinaire sighed that "The Delaunays start talking art as soon as they wake up." In his worse moments, Delaunay was a crashing bore, capable of emptying a room with his theoretical diatribes. He cannot have been easy to live with. "An artist can never be egoceritric enough," he liked to announce. He was, to the last, an only child...
Chilling Detail. Two days later, police finished unearthing the tractor-trailer prison in which the 27 captives had been entombed. The vehicle bore year-old license plates, and its tires were still inflated. Investigators quickly traced it to the Palo Alto Transfer & Storage Co., where they learned that it had been sold last November for $2,700 to a man named "Fred...
...slightly built (5 ft. 9 in., 135 Ibs.) miler would run to the point of exhaustion. Unlike the notoriously roistering Walker, Bayi does not smoke or drink, and, while training, he tucked himself chastely into bed by 8:30 p.m. He had even postponed marriage to his fiancee, who bore him a son last fall, until after the Olympics...
Adam ("singularly uninteresting") and Joseph ("not too appealing a human being") bore and offend him during their palmy days. Only after Adam's expulsion from Eden, only after Joseph's imprisonment do they qualify for his term of respect: "a tragic figure." Happiness, he concludes, is more corrosive than misery. "Work," "strive," "suffer," "begin again" are the verbs of history and the concepts that inspire Wiesel. In the honorable survival of those who have believed, he finds the examples he needs in order to behave and survive today. Messengers of God, finally, is as simple and direct...