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The NYT lead's headline emphasizes the closeness of the Israeli parliament vote, which the paper says is far from the strong victory Barak expected, while the WP 's stresses that Barak is making it clear to his Cabinet and the parliament that he is willing to cede the Golan Heights back to Syria in return for security guarantees.
USA Today reports that Arafat will cede his territorial claim on East Jerusalem.
David Westin has been anointed Roone Arledge's successor as head of the news division, but Arledge seems reluctant to cede his power.
Simon, a notorious perfectionist, at first couldn't cede control of the production.
Today we cede our vision of '50s female fashion to the movie version, as if that were the real mirror of the decade--everything blatantly cleansed of error, willfully idealized into unreality, odorless, effortless, affectless.