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...Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, in 1948. Now--sometimes comrades, sometimes rivals--the two are vying to see whose vision for peace will triumph. In his Tel Aviv office Friday morning, the 78-year-old Foreign Minister rubbed his lined face tiredly and hunched over a cup of strong, bitter black coffee that Israelis call botz, or mud. On the shelf behind his chair stood the parchment certifying his award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994. Peres still yearns to live up to that legacy, but it's not easy. "It's been a hell of a week...
...land surrounding Batu Lawi was gazetted in 1997 as "protected forest," a misnomer for land that can be assigned for logging whenever the government so decides. Logging generated almost $1 billion in revenue last year in a state with only 2 million inhabitants. With such huge sums at stake, bitter disputes?and occasional bloodshed?are inevitable. In 1997, police shot and killed a member of the Dayak tribe and wounded 15 others who were protesting the allocation of traditional land to a palm oil company. In 1999, enraged villagers massacred four heavies employed by a plantation company...
...other hand, however enthused congressional Republicans say they are about their fiscal straitjacket - "the budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be," says House Budget Committee chairman Jim Nussle - congressmen are congressmen, and swallowing bitter political pills in the name of fiscal discipline has never been either party?s strong suit...
...infrequently from his home in Philadelphia that his unpaid assistant took over his office. Last week, when he announced his intention to resign, DiIulio cited personal and health reasons. He has heart trouble, but was also frustrated with the good-soldier corporate culture of the Bush White House, and bitter about the suspicion and partisanship--on both sides--that had all but crippled his program. "The job is literally killing him," a sympathetic White House official said last week...
...half months after her first surrogate pregnancy began, as twin babies kick inside her, Beasley could not be much farther from a happy ending. She's mired in a bitter legal battle with Charles Wheeler and Martha Berman, the San Francisco attorneys who found her classified ad on the Internet and flew her over last March for a trip to a fertility clinic. Pregnant with one more baby than Wheeler and Berman wanted, Beasley says she has received only $1,000 of the $20,000 they originally agreed to pay her. The fate of the twins she's carrying...