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...Bambino would have it. He kept his baseball, theatrical and real estate businesses entirely separate. The so-called curse of the past 86 years, which is thankfully put to rest, has been nothing but a pathetic excuse for more than eight decades of mediocre baseball. Jim Frazee Oslo...
...Bambino would have it. He kept his baseball, theatrical and real estate businesses entirely separate. The so-called curse of the past 86 years has been nothing but a pathetic excuse for more than eight decades of mediocre baseball, which is thankfully now put to rest. Jim Frazee Oslo Floating to Flores Your story on the discovery of the remains of a primitive tribe of tiny cave-dwelling humans on the Indonesian island of Flores [Nov. 8] reported that its elephants may have swum the distance that separated Flores from the nearest land when the sea level...
Still, Arafat continued to commit himself, at least verbally, to peace. He wept when Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister who signed Oslo with him, was assassinated in 1995. He beamed in 1996 when he shook hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even though the hawkish Israeli leader had sworn earlier never to take Arafat's hand...
...became clear in time, though, that Arafat failed to understand how weak a deal he had made. In an interview with TIME after the first Oslo agreement, he boasted that Palestinian "independence" would soon begin in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho. When a reporter noted that the agreement provided for limited self-rule, not sovereignty, Arafat shot back, "Who told you that? It has to be under my control. I know what I have signed." Associates confirmed later that Arafat had not actually read the document...
...popular standing with Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, which violently opposed any compromise with Israel. And the peace process proved harder and harder to sell since even in the early days of relative goodwill between the Israelis and Arafat's Palestinian Authority, every expansion of self-rule promised in Oslo was hard won and overdue...