Word: openly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Arafat resisted the summit precisely because he resists finality. His strategy has always been to keep the conflict open. Why? Because when the conflict ends, his people must be satisfied with half a loaf. And while Israeli leaders have long prepared their people for serious concessions, Arafat has not. He has not moderated his demands one iota in seven years. Indeed, he keeps inflaming his people with visions of a return to all of Palestine--including Israel...
...gild refined gold, to paint the lily," wrote Shakespeare, "Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of last Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The A.P. has already hit us," said Dave Lambert, 28, who was waiting with his girlfriend...
...start-ups with their taxes. The last thing I want is more government intervention. I've got to a point that when I receive any mail from the government, I just put it in an envelope and send it to my accountant or my attorney. I don't even open...
...your basic problem is communication, a family therapist might be more important than a business consultant," suggests Rob Singh, entrepreneurship professor at the University of the Pacific's business school. "If you can open the communication lines and face issues, you can move on." Neil Koenig, a psychologist from California and author of You Can't Fire Me, I'm Your Father, has recently included among his clients a family-business owner who is 93, another who is 82. "Fifteen, 20 years ago, these gentlemen would not have talked to someone like me. They would have thought what...
...predatory life. From its first shot, of a mangled car high up in the branches of a tree, this cool, handsome thriller proceeds with an elliptical elegance. Leong is the compassionate surgeon operating on a disease called longing. And Law is the scalpel that loves what it cuts open...