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...Palestinians have shown that no amount of brutality can curb their desire to have a future. It is time for Israel to change tactics and offer a carrot in exchange for peace. Israel should stop the settlements now and promise to build no more if the Palestinians agree to live in peace. Only by surrounding their state with peace-motivated Palestinians can Israelis live peacefully. Belligerence has brought them nothing. ELI C. PEREZ Columbia...
...letters. Years went by; her career went nowhere. Advised by someone to try romance novels--which she had never read--she studied up and wrote a few. But when she crossed the 10-year mark in trying to get published, she burned all her papers and sat on a curb and cried. A few months later, an editor called to buy one of her books. Even now, Evanovich gets teary at the memory...
...Spaniards, and many Moroccans, hoped the new young King would be much more open to democracy and negotiation. But since then the two countries have fought over fishing rights (Morocco refusing them to the voracious Spanish trawlers), over illegal immigration (Spain accusing Morocco of doing little to curb the mafias that ship across the Straits a pathetic armada of desperate Africans seeking a new life in Europe), and over the future of the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara, which Morocco claims. The Moroccans recalled their ambassador from Madrid in October last year; King Juan Carlos, who has been described...
...wealth this year. Two new shows were nominated for best drama ("24" and "Six Feet Under"), and Michael Chiklis was nominated for his first year on FX's morally ambiguous cop drama (which should have gotten "Law & Order's" drama spot, but who are we kidding?). HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - a screamingly funny comedy of neuroses watched by approximately 15 people outside New York and LA, all of whom will write me angry e-mail for that remark - surprised everyone by getting a best-comedy nod, along with usual suspects...
...Curb Your Enthusiasm/HBO...