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...case of Yeltsin, Washington has a deep desire to see Fox succeed - and a strong self-interest in doing what it can to help him. President Bush is prepared to go to bat for the rights of Mexican truckers to ride U.S. highways, and to press Congress to abandon the annual ritual of certifying Mexico as a drug war ally, which the Mexicans find insulting. But the faltering U.S. economy is making life difficult for Fox, as last year's roaring 7 percent growth rate gives way to this year's stagnation, and Mexico sheds jobs instead of creating desperately...
Even though the Justice Department?s trustbusters decided Thursday to abandon their effort to break up Microsoft in court, drop its "bundling" investigations and open its arms to a case-closing settlement, the Redmond software giant?s troubles are not immediately over...
...Sharon in March told Israelis that they should abandon hopes of a comprehensive peace in the near future, and instead prepare for a decade or more of conflict, punctuated by cease-fires. More recently, he's floated the idea of an "armistice" similar to the one Israel signed with Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon in 1949 - essentially, a long-term cease-fire designed to contain an unresolved conflict. Those close to him maintain he's not prepared to concede more territory than the 42 percent of the West Bank and Gaza, broken up into a camouflage pattern of discrete cantons...
...simply have given up on life. "I know Bruno and I know what was in his mind," says Graf. "He knew some of the Penan were selling their land to the loggers. He had seen some of his best friends abandon their traditional clothes and, for the first time, don T shirts and shoes. Everywhere, he saw logging." Manser was an idealist, the kind of earnest campaigner who makes people uncomfortable, who goes too far, a man described by one Swiss friend as half child, half hero, a man who would never abandon the fight for his friends. But even...
...Some lawmakers worry that China?which has been looking to buy an aircraft carrier for a decade?might want to refit the ship for military use. It was sold for $20 million in 1998 before it was finished (it has no engine or rudder). The owners had threatened to abandon the Varyag, but press reports say its wait might end?if Beijing agrees to lift a domestic travel advisory discouraging Chinese tourists from visiting Turkey. In fact it's a great destination?if you don't intend to leave by aircraft carrier...