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...group's military chiefs are also threatening to strike against Israel to drive it out of the West Bank the way they claim they pushed it out of Gaza. Abbas' security brass isn't obeying his orders, making it hard for him to face down the Islamists and ensuring that he'll fall short of Sharon's demand for a complete end to violence. If Hamas gets a free hand in Gaza and its homemade rockets begin to land inside Israel, Sharon could also be in trouble--he faces party primaries in the spring and an election next fall...
...suede Fez bag ($995) is embellished with brass disks and cabochons and takes its inspiration from the craftsmanship of Morocco...
Creative director Gordon Thompson updated the classic Lunch Tote bag ($350) with brass paillettes and studs to give it an edgier look
...vacuum of facts, partisans on both sides headed straight for their armories; it felt like five years of political warfare in concentrated form. Naturally it would feature Rove, as brass-knuckled a player as has walked onstage in a generation. But in addition there was John Kerry, promoting a Fire Rove petition on his website. There was Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman declaring that it was not Plame or Wilson but Rove who was the victim of "blatant partisan political attacks." There was White House spokesman Scott McClellan, who had once called the notion that Rove was involved "ridiculous...
...what also gets Immelt pumped is talking about the environment in a way no GE chief has before, certainly not his predecessor, "Neutron Jack" Welch, who ran the company with a brass-knuckles approach to the bottom line. Welch had a testy relationship with greens, notably over cleaning the Hudson River of PCBs, a toxic chemical GE dumped, legally, for decades before the practice was banned in 1977. Since Welch retired in 2001, however, Immelt has been remaking GE. He recently announced a restructuring, paring 11 operating divisions to six. He has pruned slow-growth businesses like insurance and loaded...