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...closeness of the contest has thrown the Communist candidate onto the defensive. Last week Zyuganov headed for Siberia, shunning critics in the big cities for the reassuring applause of the "red and passionate" in the remote Far East. There he wins heady applause from his natural constituency of pensioners and those left out of the new, rambunctious Russian society, who share his visions of impending apocalypse and lap up communism's promise to restore a mythic past of civil order and financial security...
...other peace track is supposed to be with Syria, but here too Netanyahu has thrown up daunting obstacles. Forget land for peace, he says: Damascus can have peace for peace. Labor and the U.S. have operated on the principle that Syrian President Hafez Assad wants above all to regain the Golan Heights taken by Israel in 1967. But Labor's offer to hand back the territory if sufficient security arrangements could be worked out was not enough to tempt Assad into giving Israel the full, open peace it demanded in return. Netanyahu thinks Assad might be persuaded to stop harboring...
Well, O.K., I figured, the Internet crumps out. So what? Sure, I use it, but I could get along without it. I'm not a Web zombie. I'm not someone who is thrown into a tizzy by the thought that the athlete's-foot chat room will someday go dark. When nobody is logging on anywhere, I won't be wandering the streets buttonholing strangers who might just feel the need to share stories of unbearable itching...
...Sometimes we are forced to leave and once in a while we are thrown out [of a country]," Sachs says. "We just try to choose our projects carefully...
...interested in various fields of thought should be thrown together with a view of promoting a broad and humane culture," Lowell wrote in 1928. "So far as subjects of concentration, pecuniary means, and residence in different parts of the country are concerned, each House should be a cross-section of the College...