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Even the summit's death seemed odd. It came at 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Saeb Erakat, a top aide to Yasser Arafat, walked into the living room of Aspen Lodge, where Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger sat, and read them a letter from the Palestinian leader. Arafat saw no use continuing talks on an agreement to end 52 years of conflict with Israel. Sovereignty over Jerusalem and its holy sites was the stumbling block. "The problem is they both want the same thing," Albright said later in an interview with TIME...
...reach an agreement." Clinton stared at him vacantly. "I don't like to fail, particularly at this," he said softly. But he and the others were too spent to even feel sad. Clinton had been up almost 48 hours in a final diplomatic surge; Albright and Berger had had so many emotional highs and lows in the previous two weeks that they were numb. In nearby Laurel Lodge, where meals were served, Palestinian and Israeli diplomats had already begun hugging one another and apologizing. Relations between Arafat and Barak remained frosty, but their negotiators have grown close over the years...
Whether they met on MTV's "Celebrity Death Match" or at a Council on Foreign Affairs debate, Condoleezza Rice would single-handedly wipe the floor with the Clinton foreign policy tag team of Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger...
...terrorists (including Bin Laden) and evidence that Bin Laden had sought to develop chemical weapons there. All of that, and a soil sample showing traces of a nerve gas building block. The administration's position was summed up a month after the missile strike by National Security Adviser Sandy Berger: "With the knowledge that we had... had we not hit that target and had Bin Laden used chemical weapons in a terrorist attack, I don't know how we could have looked the American people in the face." Until now, the administration has stuck by its decision to target...
Other critics focus on his secretiveness. Famous for that closely held binder and his lack of a paper trail, Ross shares only with his immediate superiors--Clinton, Berger and Albright--the most sensitive information on talks, and some say the lack of witnesses and signed documents leaves him vulnerable to those who would go back on their word. But most colleagues say such tactics are an asset, not a liability. "It makes his role all the more essential," says Ed Abington, a former member of Ross's team. In fact, the joke at State is that essential Ross has found...