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He wrote that the crown prince, the effective ruler of Saudi Arabia, could have met secretly with Israeli officials, as Clinton asked, and struck deals with them behind closed doors, subsequently to denounce Israel in the strongest terms, as many Arab leaders did.
Mom's still smiling, struck by the warmth and familiarity of this scene--and, the ad makers hope, she's still turning up the dials and buying up the Tylenol.
The Tang Dynasty Rock Inscriptions (Moyabei) were struck in large gold-foil characters to record Emperor Xuanzong’s imperial pilgrimage in the year 726.
While reading "Allen Ginsberg's Secret," by Paul Berman, regarding the poet's confession of altering a poem Norman Podhoretz had submitted to the Columbia Review , I was struck by a dark thought: What if Allen Ginsberg and Norman Podhoretz were the same person?
Woodward's 1996 campaign finance pieces struck a chord that still rings, and I predict a similar impact for Barton Gellman's two-part series last week about how the United States and China nearly went to war in 1996 (click here and here).