[B]oth sides know better than to expect that U.S. special envoy Senator George Mitchell's shuttling between Jerusalem and Ramallah will be able to bridge the chasm between their demands.

There then developed the concept of three Rossiia’s: the Major Rossiia, the Minor Rossiia, and the White Rossiia (as in the Synopsis).

The German had resumed his situation as commercial clerk and foreign correspondent to Eckermann & Co.

This is what we get for burnin' Flint out! whined Dobbs. You shouldn't have did that, Bill. It's a judgment! Aw, shut up! growled his partner. You make me sick. Judgment my neck! There ain't no such thing!