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...fate of the peace process, in other words, may be decided by what happens in places like Migron. As Israeli society has grown more secular and less attached to the vision of a greater Israel, ideological splits have emerged among the settlers. The most radical "hilltop youths" are ready to mobilize and resist the government's attempts to remove them. Many like Harel are second-generation settlers, the sons and daughters of older Zionists. They have grown up steeped in holy books and prophecy and see themselves as the first line of defense against the Arabs. They consider themselves divorced...
...partnership had once seemed so promising. Both men shared the same vision and goal: to use technology to thrust General Motors boldly into the 21st century. When GM in 1984 bought Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems, the computer-services firm that Perot had founded, Smith was trying to inject high-tech know-how and a can-do spirit into a stodgy company. But the job of grafting an entrepreneurial operation onto a highly departmentalized, regimented and unionized organization proved to be more troublesome than anticipated...
...Picasso (1881-1973) made the most of these twin gifts is attested to in his sketchbooks, which cover 73 of his 92 years, a span that transformed our way of seeing. Je Suis le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso (Atlantic Monthly Press; 347 pages; $65) documents that revolution of vision through the artist's eyes. The book reproduces six sketchbooks and includes selections from 36 others, each illustrating the development of images and styles that dominated the painter's major periods. Scholars should find this work indispensable; art lovers will discover renewed appreciation of one of the century's most...
...likely to change the framework for the 1988 elections. Until recently it seemed that the phenomenal success of Reagan's detached style of governing had changed the public's perception of leadership. Now it is likely the electorate will yearn for a candidate who not only has a vision for the nation but promises to bring to bear the hands-on managerial competence that was so lacking in the Iran-contra affair...
...black bull that materializes from the fog). But as in the Robert Graves poem from which the novel takes its name ("? as when the young bird-catcher/ Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's daughter,/ So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly"), Hall's dark vision is lit by a transforming lyricism, with bravura passages that can take the breath away. This is Australian writing worth caring about...