Word: mattered
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Easiest of all, perhaps, are the tourists. No matter what their age or nationality, they all walk three times more slowly than everyone else. And they all carry shopping bags from the Coop...
...latest reminder that from now on, there will be German answers to the German question in all its complex and troubling dimensions. The four wartime Allies that crushed the Third Reich in 1945 can still consult, negotiate and harrumph to their hearts' content, but they cannot dictate on any matter. That includes the most sensitive and controversial of all: whether a united and fully sovereign Germany will eventually become a nuclear power...
...knows it. In Friend of My Youth (Knopf; 273 pages; $18.95), the Canadian author tells a story of burial at sea. She titles it Goodness and Mercy. Chekhov wrote on the same subject and called his tale Gusev. Is Munro's work a challenge or an homage? No matter; both stories are masterpieces of subtlety and cunning. Other tales investigate the vagaries of love, married and adulterous, and the mystery that separates the sexes. One woman's musings encapsulate the story collection: "A knot in his mind you might undo, a stillness in him you might jolt . . . Could...
...dare you even think of attaching strings to your aid, says Eliahu Ben- Elissar, an influential Shamir aide. "We are not a colony." Ben-Elissar is right. Israel is not a colony -- but neither is it an indigent client entitled to assistance as a matter of right against American interests...
Ending the travel restrictions is "of directconcern to many individuals at Harvard," saidHarvey V. Fineberg, dean of the School of PublicHealth. "It's a matter of vital social policy, amatter of good public health, a matter of fairnessand non-discrimination...