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…an moving toward full diplomatic recognition of the PRC, it withheld many of the details about its plans from Congress. One of the largest unresolved issues was the fate of Taiwan, in which Congress took a special interest. The United States had already dropped recognition of Tai...

…hey are actually implemented: donors who use their GST exemption for multi-generational trusts often feel that they've done “enough” for those lower generations, and may lack the charitable intent necessary for the HEET to work. In addition, given life’s uncertainties, trust crea...

…ossar, a Shin Bet veteran who spoke fluent Arabic and, after working in the West Bank and Gaza in the late 1960s became one of the first Israelis to hold secret talks with Arafat, building up a personal relationship with him. Under both Rabin and Peres, he had been a valuable lia...

…urricula is to make sure that students’ interest is grabbed and maintained for a full year, while teaching them how to hone their capabilities at the 12 cognitive processes. What are the obstacles? What would prevent this from happening? Really there are only four issues: Find...

… Gekko jumps up to say hello and Graydon brushes him off with a few dismissive lines. Monday, November 9, 25 Broadway One hundred swells show up at the former Canard Shipping building, a massive Italianate hall, at the crack of dawn for the Alzheimer’s Ball, a grand charity eve...

…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...

neutral standard of human rights? Have human rights now become the permanent weapon of choice for those who practice human wrongs? For shame. For shame.

…age we had was that they would have no idea what had happened on Rue Verdun, who we were, or where we were going. No sooner had we joined the Corniche than I saw another police Land Rover about 200 yards ahead of us. This one had a spotlight on the roof, panning both sides of th...

…Syria; and find some form of coexistence with the Palestinians. He also spoke about international politics. I remember one afternoon in the summer of 1992 when he mentioned the then US presidential candidate Bill Clinton. He’d met Clinton for the first time in Washington, after...

…Only then did the number of casualties begin to fall. I tried to steer clear of public criticism of Arik’s government. One of the lessons I’d learned as Prime Minister was how easy it was to second-guess from the outside. No Prime Minister can act exactly as he might plan or wan...

… include Labor in his government, with me as his Defense Minister. Even though I’d announced I was stepping aside, he phoned me the morning after the election to make that argument again. He said Israel needed a strong government, especially to confront the escalating violence. H...

…: www.afaweb.org. Tags: Discussion Lecture Reception Artist Arts Patron Collector Social Patron Arts Visual Arts. Day One Seventh Annual Benefit to End Dating Violence Among Youth. 6:30 pm. Cocktails and dinner. Honoring Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. Co-chaired by Wendy Amstutz, Martin...

…mpeting portions take the form of (potentially overlap- ping) coalitions of structures comprising parts the model. Once one such coalition wins the competition, the agent has decided what to focus its attention on. And now comes the purpose of all this processing: to help the ag...

…our bodily functions maintain. As Wiener put it: “It is the pattern maintained by this homeostasis, which is the touchstone of our personal identity.” I’m more used to treating processes and computation as the fundamental building blocks of the world. That said, Wiener’s lens br...

…truggle for the future structure of the international order. He did not elaborate on this back then. But much work has gone on within the Chinese system since on three inter-related concepts: the international order (guoji zhixu); the international system (guoji xitong), and glob...