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…tate negotiated solution through diplomatic offices"? If, or perhaps when, another effort to negotiate a deal is made, one thing is clear -- Erekat will be in the middle of it. Last week, he agreed to answer my HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029786

…my father’s well warn copy of William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience and | wondered if | had been visited by one of the altered states he described. Was this what he meant by a _ transformative experience? A few months later, a late night meditation produced physical e...

…esident’s proposal as a basis for going forward.” When Clinton returned, he promptly got back down to business: making one last push to see whether a peace deal was possible. He phoned me around midnight on the 24" of July, a few hours after he’d arrived. He told me he had sent...

significant credit issues for the banks as weaker firms (who are clients) will be better positioned to sell themselves to the tech behemoths looking for innovative ideas. Catalysts: 1) Improving expectations around rising rates (on back of better macro- economic data) will conti...

…. A lot of these guys say competition among different lovers within open relationships is awesome because it keeps everyone a little uncertain, and encourages them to be "on top of their game." This contrasts drastically with most polyamorous perspectives; in my experience, poly...

…’s houseboy, lover, photographer and social anthropologist who said, “Newton didn’t discover gravity, he invented it.” One college summer | found a second Isaac Newton, perhaps not so estranged from the first. He appeared in the form of a marble bust in the chapel of Trinity Col...

… has worked with chents in Shanghai, Tokyo and Mumbai, and is in discussions with new customers in Africa. He hopes to one day produce a “green and sustainable” solution for a clent. That may sound like an oxymoron, and it will take a designer used to pushing the limits of conve...

…tarian regimes. These 21° century authori- tarians developed an arsenal of new tactics to use against their domestic opponents, and gone on the offensive in an effort to subvert and replace the liberal international order. But modern authoritarian systems are not simply adversar...

…o 5 y because he is wealthy. They nts with legal opinions from in ij 208 q FirtHy RicuH well-known legal experts. One member of the defense team warned me that the office’s excess zeal in forcing a good man to serve time in jail might be the subject of a book if we continue...

…der, denouncing not only Sadat but any Arab leader who’d shown willingness to engage or negotiate with Israel. Amos Oz, one of our finest writers and a cultural icon for Labor Zionists, probably put it best. He said the Syrians seemed to think that “we will give them the Golan, a...

…rned respect for this from many quarters, but now, as the coalition is being formed, it might be a good time to examine one aspect of Israel’s political culture: the lack of respect for the task of a parliamentary opposition. Peres is at least partly to blame for this, as he almo...

…embarrassment for the Russian government to be found guilty of essentially assassinating a head of state. Kaczynski was one of the strongest allies of the U.S. among European leaders, and even Russia with its assertive diplomatic policies would not risk a complete breakdown with...

… sensation on state television by contemplating bizarre hypotheticals at the intersection of Islamic law and sexuality. One of his most outlandish scenarios -- still mocked by Iranians three decades later -- went like this: Imagine you are a young man sleeping in your bedroom....

…ting the Jews who had arrived from Yemen. In the Negev, I met members of the even larger post- war influx from Morocco. One image struck me above all. It was from the place Yigal and I ate dinner. Ofakim was a development town that had yet to develop. It had no visible means of s...