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...your own private exchange, however, can easily cost $5 million or more. One alternative is the route taken by Diebold, a Canton, Ohio, maker of safes and ATMs, which has hired FreeMarkets to conduct online auctions for it. FreeMarkets acts as a corporate matchmaker, combining the services of a broker, an auctioneer and a software designer. FreeMarkets seeks out suppliers, ensures they can meet specifications, then invites them to either participate in a real-time auction online or submit sealed bids...
...latest developments was predictably mixed. President Bush wholeheartedly backed Sharon's right to defend Israelis any way he sees fit and laid all blame for the crisis of the past year at Arafat's door. Secretary of State Colin Powell, to whose department the Quixotic challenge of brokering a truce has fallen, sought urgent clarification on the meaning of Sharon's statement, and asserted that Washington would continue to work with Arafat. Still, the Israeli decision left little reason for General Anthony Zinni to remain in the region hoping against hope to broker a cease-fire by prevailing on Arafat...
...Hamas a de facto ally of Fatah and the PA in the day-to-day battles against the Israelis, the Islamist group remains resolutely opposed to any attempt to restore the crippled peace process. Their latest wave of suicide bombings are designed in part to sabotage U.S. efforts to broker a cease-fire, and the resulting international pressure on Arafat has set him on a collision course with Hamas...
...final chapter of Taliban rule in Afghanistan. But what comes next is far from clear, despite the widely acclaimed political agreement in the German town of Koenigswinter between four rival Afghan factions. It took some dramatic arm twisting and a promise of $20 billion in reconstruction aid to broker the deal in which Karzai will lead a 30-member interim cabinet that will govern for six months before a broadly-representative 'loya jirga' assembly is convened. The agreement also provides for an international security force to be deployed in Kabul, despite earlier opposition from elements of the Northern Alliance...
...Taliban's ability to resurrect itself as a Pashtun guerrilla force depends on Mullah Omar staying alive. If he lives, and if the Allied forces cannot broker a lasting, stable government in Kabul that passes on immediate benefits to the Pashtuns, then the Taliban fighters will dig up their hidden weapons and descend from the mountains, probably in six months time. The U.S. may indeed have "fractured" the Taliban's command and control structure, as the Pentagon claims, but the militia's lower echelons remain intact, along tribal lines. A commander usually recruits from his own village or town, even...