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...This is something the Americans don't seem to understand. There's a real culture gap between the Americans, the Israelis and the Palestinians. None of them really understands the other two. For example, that deal to sell radar to China that Barak withdrew a few days ago - the fact that they'd even made that deal without taking account of American reaction is proof that the Israelis don't really understand America...
...surprisingly, the ranchers' militancy is provoking a Mexican backlash. Two weeks ago, Carlos Ibarra Perez, a retired oil worker in Reynosa, across the line from Texas, announced a $10,000 reward for the first person who kills a U.S. border-patrol agent. In the ensuing uproar, Ibarra withdrew his bounty, but it shows the depth of hostility growing between the U.S. and its neighbor...
...Withdrew from field of play...
...late 16th century, in the violent breakup of the old order and the coming of new science, in the midst of religious civil war, Montaigne withdrew to a book-lined tower in the French countryside and began to compose his essais - rambling, free-associating, magnificently civilized scribblings that invented the modern essay form and, above all, attempted to formulate new rules for conducting a decent, intelligent life: personal experience and reflection struggling toward universal principle. Montaigne had the words "que sais-je?" inscribed in his tower, and looked at them as he worked: "What do I know...
...19th century, many presidential candidates thought it unseemly to do actual campaigning for the office. Thus Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 retired to Galena, Ill., and demurely waited for November. William McKinley withdrew to his front porch in Ohio and ran the race in a rocking chair. This is a tradition that cries out for reinstatement. Let Al Gore and George W. Bush go home and remain there in decorous silence until November...