Results for “Drew Oosterbaan”

…to become Israel’s 14" chief-of-staff at the start of April, barely a month after the last Scud attack. As the handover drew nearer, I felt fortunate, in a way, to have missed out on the job four years earlier. Not only had Dan excelled as ramatkal. I'd benefited from his range o...

…ble we sat in a pool of dim light and waited on the Master as he considered his next thoughts. I knew that some of what drew China’s great minds here to dinners with him was a sense that those old ideas of Chinese philosophy - born in an age of chaos and dating back to a time bef...

…l of which would be painful for Israel. In the Haaretz newspaper on Thursday, Ari Shavit, who is a political centrist, drew a comparison between 2011 and the biggest military setback Israel ever faced, the 1973 war. He wrote that “2011 is going to be a diplomatic 1973,” because...

… written. “You're also making a social decision, and this may be the more important of the two.”24 You might ask: What drew tens of millions of people to watch live as Steve Jobs unveiled some new Apple device in the last years of his life? Of course, partly it was the cool tech...

…eral orientations shaped the stances, whether for or against, in the referendum on the constitutional amendments, which drew the first clear lines in the post-25 January political map. In that referendum, the first camp obtained 77.2 per cent of the vote versus 22.8 per cent for...