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His meetings last week with President Clinton and Yasser Arafat were roundly applauded for rebuilding relationships former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had soured, but David Plotz explains in Slate why Israelis are . In the Washington Post , Henry Kissinger warned Israelis not to leave the United States out of the peace process, while an op-ed piece in the Israeli paper Ha'aretz cautioned that congressional Republicans, under the sway of the right-wing Israeli Likud Party, will "throw spikes into the newly energized peace train."
She clashed early on with Edinburgh’s famous Protestant reformer, John Knox, who held sway in St. Giles but later adopted an uneasy policy of religious tolerance.
The Internet has already begun to transform the general advertising industry, and it will soon hold sway over the tens of millions of dollars spent every electoral season on television and radio ads.
He first fell under the sway of Thomas Hart Benton, his teacher at the New York Art Students' League, and Albert Pinkham Ryder, essaying moonlight seascapes and moody swirls of Americana, such as Going West (1934-38).
Vedado had its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s, when such gangsters as Meyer Lansky held sway in the Nacional, Riviera, and Capri hotels.