Word: destroyer
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...film's most ungainly scene -- is the Sun's female managing editor, played by Glenn Close in a haggard, predatory tone, as if stranded between Fatal Attraction and Sunset Blvd. One can detect here the fine misogyny of screenwriter David Koepp, who had Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn destroy themselves for vanity's sake in Death Becomes Her. (Koepp wrote The Paper with his brother Stephen, a TIME senior editor...
...Arafat will be damned by his own people if he does resume talks, and damned by history if he does not. When Dr. Baruch Goldstein walked into the Hebron shrine and opened fire on rows of kneeling worshippers, his intention was not just to kill Arabs but also to destroy the peace process that promised to end decades of bloody struggle over the occupied territories. If a way cannot be found to allow both sides to fulfill the pledge they made on the White House lawn last September, Goldstein will have succeeded...
...current policy, with tries to destroy house stereotypes, is also contradictory for its acceptance of personal stereotypes. Saying that "type" would congregate implies that people are defined by their "type"--that they have no depth beyond "jock" or "nerd." In fact, students have many facets and a plan that defines them as narrow representatives of a particular race, creed or stereotype does them a great disservice...
...there any justification for Goldstein's action in all of Jewish tradition. Judaism stresses the sanctity of life; as a Talmudic maxim states, "He who always destroy a life, it as if he has destroyed a world...
...lagging peace negotiations must be speeded up. There were risks in trying to do so, and in involving the U.S. more deeply in the process. But, says an adviser, the risks of not doing so were much greater: continued rioting, bloodshed and calls for vengeance could all too quickly destroy the commitment of peace-minded Israelis and Palestinians and reward extremists who want no accommodation...