Summertime in Vermont, and the Sound of Arabic Echoes in the Hills

Thirteen of us gather around the television, watching the news beamed in from an Arabic news station in Qatar. The announcer, clad in a long white tunic, or abaya, and head covering, speaks in rapid-fire Arabic as pictures of Ehud Barak, Israel's prime minister, and President Clinton flash across the screen.

The headlines over, we students scrape together what little we have understood: There is an important meeting, at Camp David -- starting tomorrow? Or maybe it was last

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