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There is no question that Sharon drives a hard bargain, and perhaps he is just posturing to get Israel a better deal in the end. But if he holds to the line that Israel will not move on settlements until the last phase of negotiations, his offer of “painful concessions” will be revealed as little more than a bald attempt to score P.R. points with the U.S. while ensuring that those concessions will never actually need to be made...
...touch with a ten-foot pole," was charged with drugging and sodomizing 13-year-old Samantha Gailery 26 years ago this month in the jacuzzi of Jack Nicholson's house. (The transcript of Gaillery's 1977 deposition can be read on thesmokinggun.com.) He fled the country when a plea bargain he'd negotiated was in jeopardy of being overturned. But Hollywood loves to forgive old reprobates; it is a way of congratulating them and its own sense of liberality. In 1972 Oscar welcomed back Charles Chaplin, another distinguished foreigner who liked his girls young. It happens that "The Pianist...
...metal stylus and a crisp 320x320-pixel display. The AT&T service lets you download data at a reasonable 40 kbps. My only quibble: at $549, plus at least $30 a month for Web and e-mail access, plus the cost of a voice plan, the W is no bargain...
While the prospect of a future democratic government in Iraq embracing terrorist groups may seem far-fetched, a look at what happened in Turkey last weekend should give the Bush administration pause about hastily deposing Saddam Hussein. Working with foreign democracies has not always proved to be the bargain that we had anticipated...
Buffett's bigger plays have been in buying whole businesses, which suggests that he sees private-asset values as a bargain while the public markets have not yet become cheap. But take heart. Maybe after he cleans up how America's largest companies are run he will want to buy their common stocks again. --With reporting by Julie Rawe/New York