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Bush should encourage the kind of hard thinking that eventual negotiations will require, while, at the same time, preparing moderates on both sides for the concessions that their leadership must one day trade for peace. By bolstering the bi-national peace movement that Beilin and Rabbo represent, and by promoting creative solutions like the Geneva Accord, Bush’s work today may rescue future negotiations when they sag like a heavy load—before peace explodes...
They hope to hold bi-weekly “town hall meetings” to discuss current IOP projects and solicit feedback from students, he said...
...home, Bush was able to build a bi-partisan coalition for his first tax cut, but his push for more breaks and the reappearance of record deficits have reignited fiscal debates that had quieted during the fat years of budget surpluses. As the economy appears to be recovering, Bush's supporters credit his aggressive tax-cutting agenda and have called for more of the same. Opponents say Bush has starved vital programs and left no money to reform health care or entitlements. "He came to office preaching the virtues of having a balanced budget and running [a professional government]," says...
Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch (Pantheon; 2002) Ted Mishkin, an early animator, has a problem. Is his creation, the mischievous, bi-pedal cat Waldo, actually real? Mishkin thinks so, and it drives him insane in this darkly delightful novel. Deitch, an underground comix pioneer, has a style that combines the quaintness of antique toys with the woes of modern life. Full Review
...female journalists have written memoirs that capitalize on their ability to slip across the cultural membrane that segregates men from women in Afghanistan. In The Bookseller of Kabul, Norwegian journalist ?sne Seierstad describes herself as bi-gendered: free to circulate among men but also able to enter the welcoming?and asphyxiating?world of Afghan women. After covering the fall of the Taliban, Seierstad joins the household of an erudite bookseller for four months. She is drawn to Sultan Khan (a pseudonym) because of his encyclopedic knowledge of Afghan culture?she calls him "a history book on two feet...