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...life with a controversial $8 million book deal. Bill Clinton will soon bring in even more. His dream isn't DreamWorks, as rumored, but to save the Third World--to be Jimmy Carter, except for more money and without the carpenter's apron. A Washington lawyer will broker a book deal, and he may also talk to agents in Manhattan eager to package this most mediagenic figure into a brand: big-ticket speeches taped to become one-hour specials; missions to Africa turned into PBS series, to do for the starving masses in the sub-Sahara what Harvest of Shame...
George W. Bush has given Clinton the green light to reach a deal. But if Jan. 20 passes without one, Arafat knows it will take Bush some time before his diplomatic team will probably be ready to broker an accord. And if Sharon wins in Israel, that day may never come. Perhaps that's what Arafat wants. But, as Clinton mused at a press conference last week, "we're all operating under a deadline. It's just some of us know what our deadline...
Bush veterans love Card because he is an honest broker who will make the trains run on time, but no one mistakes him for a visionary. Card has spent the past six weeks at Bush's side, organizing his days, his briefings and his decision making. "Andy has no ego," said a veteran of the Bush White House...
...stood his ground at Camp David, Yasser Arafat is unlikely to back down now despite warnings that his window of opportunity - in the form of President Clinton and Ehud Barak - is closing. Senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders are to meet Tuesday in Washington for an eleventh-hour attempt to broker a peace agreement, as the violence that has claimed more than 360 lives over the past 12 weeks rages unabated. But the eleventh hour, of course, tolls not for Arafat, but for the Clinton administration, whose tenure expires on January 20, and for Ehud Barak's caretaker government, which faces...
...political analyst told CNN Tuesday night, "Texas Democrats are like Texas Republicans wearing a thin layer of paint." Leadership in both parties bow equally deeply to the twin deities of conservatism: Tax cuts and less government. And certainly Bush's confabs with Speaker Laney, long considered a key broker of bipartisan support for Bush's proposals, have not prepared him for debates with Dick Gephardt or Trent Lott, congressional leaders who are making conciliatory noises now - but who are also known for their fierce partisanship...