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Nearly three weeks past the scheduled date for the beginning of the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the occupied Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho, Israeli negotiators and representatives of the Palestinian people are clearly still at odds over the interpretation of the Declaration of Principles that was signed with such fanfare on the White House lawn last September. There has been progress, to be sure, and more significantly there remains among the participants a willingness to move from a meeting of the minds to the sealing of a deal. Just...
Begged by his mother, President Clinton invited his brother Roger to the White House for Christmas. For months, Clinton has urged Roger to marry his pregnant girlfriend Molly Martin, and to placate him Roger showed up with a marriage license, blood test and a wedding date -- Dec. 27 in Dallas (Molly's hometown). But then Roger wanted to fly back to Arkansas with his girlfriend on Air Force One. The wedding is now planned for next week -- or it may be put off again...
...redolent, suggestive Vegas facts, of which any several -- for instance: the Mirage has a $500-a-pull slot-machine salon; the lung-cancer death rate here is the second highest in the country; the suicide rate and cellular-phone usage are the highest -- constitute a vivid, up-to-date sketch of the place...
...happen). Nor does it count the acts that play the celebrity rooms several weeks a year, such as Harry Blackstone Jr., David Copperfield and, yes, Penn & Teller. Then there are the close-up guys who sit at your table and do tricks and jokes right in your and your date's collective face -- like the amazing Mike + Skinner. Throw in all the comics making condom jokes while sticking needles through balloons at the brick-wall comedy clubs, and you probably have two or three dozen magic acts working Vegas as I type...
...real show of the weekend comes Saturday night when Princeton (6-5 overall, 0-0 Ivy) comes to town. The Tigers have scored the Ivy League's most impressive win to date, a 59-56 upset of nationally-ranked Santa Clara...