Word: tempt
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...when Israel goes to the polls - presuming Netanyahu can prevail over the legal obstacles to his candidacy - and President Clinton would dearly like to close out on a note of triumph. The specter of a right-wing Israeli government and a more distant Bush administration will be used to tempt Arafat to conclude a final peace deal while his Camp David partners are still in place, although there's also considerable Palestinian skepticism about being stampeded into compromises with lame ducks. Palestinian sources have indicated that the Washington talks have been convened under pressure from the Americans and Israelis...
...power of democracy to change the way they're governed, and that has to have struck fear into the PRI pooh-bahs. Fox is starting out with a 70 percent approval rating, and that may make many PRI officials more inclined to cut deals with him than to tempt the ire of the electorate by openly opposing...
...last two must-see religious-themed Buñuel films draw their plotlines from actual historical events. "Simon of the Desert" (1965) is a low-budget production about a holy man who lives in a remote part of the desert, perched on a high pillar. The devil comes to tempt Simon, in the form of a sexy young woman (Silvia Pinal); for her final act, she shows this ascetic a vision of a modern day "black mass," taking him inside a noisy, sweaty, rockin' 1960s discotheque! "The Milky Way," Bunuel's final statement on Catholicism, is an episodic exploration...
...retrospect, we got too far ahead of ourselves. And so now the baseball gods have humbled us on account of our hubris. We dared to tempt fate, believing that the Sox might finally cast off the cursed mantle of 82 years of futility. But alas, our pride was found to be in excess and we were struck down in the sight of our enemies, namely the ever-loathsome front-runners who hail from the Bronx...
...more pedestrian staples of the last decade's news coverage. Yasser Arafat may have threatened publicly to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state if no deal was reached by the deadline, but off the record his aides have always made it abundantly clear that he won't tempt fate while the U.S. election season heats up and Ehud Barak's beleaguered government faces mounting pressure on its right flank. And the Israeli leader, whose immediate priority now is to simply survive in office when his parliament reconvenes in the fall, can't afford to allow relations with the Palestinians to collapse...