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Soft. That word may be the root of Shimon Peres' galling defeat. Many voters mistrusted his New Middle East as just the feel-good visions of a naif. His attempt to buttress his security credentials by ordering a callous 17-day bombardment of Lebanon that killed as many as 200 civilians alienated many more Israeli-Arab voters than it earned him Jewish ones. Leah Rabin, wife of the Prime Minister slain by a right-wing extremist last November, criticized Peres' high-minded refusal to exploit the assassination for electoral advantage. He never responded in kind to Likud's pointed, simplistic...
Brokaw sheds his Midwestern loyalties during basketball season to root for the New York Knicks. He was distraught by their elimination by the Chicago Bulls in this year's playoffs, he says...
...short run, only a fool would be optimistic about Russia's course, the eventual outcome seems favorable. As Gorbachev says, "Only the old are truly Communists now. When the young take over, communism will finally die, and democracy will take firm root." So while few deny that a period of repressive score settling would attend a Communist victory, the grass that is already growing through the cracks will continue to do so in any event. It is right to view this election as among the most pivotal in history. The question, though, is no longer whether Russia's future will...
...real democracy is ever to take root in Russia, the country's political establishment will have to open its doors to the dynamic new social forces that have so far been excluded from a game largely played by former Communists. No matter whether Yeltsin or Zyuganov triumphs in the presidential race, few Russians believe they will live anytime soon in a society where the rule of law prevails and where the leaders take the demands of the electorate as seriously as their own self-interest. Such crippling pessimism is understandable, given centuries of oppressive rule by the Kremlin...
Volleyball nets are set up by displaced Californians, little kids from the elementary school play soccer with Brad; and occasionally even a croquet course or an inning or two of cricket takes root. Adam walks by in his Wachusett T-shirt and yells up to my window to ask if I want to play tennis at three...