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...things led me to mistakenly conclude that Gore had won Tuesday night's smackdown. It was clear that Bush didn't fully understand the peril of making Russia our broker in Serbia, especially since Russia remained so sympathetic toward the defeated Milosevic. The RU 486 question tied him in knots. He didn't want to remind such a large audience that his official position on abortion is to recriminalize it if he can change enough hearts. So he fudged his earlier statement that he would seek to overturn approval of the drug, saying a President is powerless...
...violence at the Mount stunned Israelis, whose troops faced widespread gunfire from Palestinian police and militia. Upon hearing the calls of their imams to defend the sacred compound, Israel's Arab citizens answered with rioting throughout the Galilee. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright tried to broker a deal but got only a partial cease-fire that few observed...
...process, and emphasized the importance of keeping a pre-emptive eye on Saddam Hussein. When asked whether the U.S. should take a clear side in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Gore scored a point by responding like a true diplomat: If we throw away our ability to be an honest broker, we throw away an opportunity to be a part of the peace process. Bush concurred - but underscored the military and humanitarian responsibilities of neighboring countries, a point he revisited whenever the topic of American peacekeeping was broached. "We do not want to overcommit our troops...
...expressed alarm both at the mob killing in Ramallah and at the scale of the Israeli response. But the image most troubling to all those hoping to broker a new peace in the region may have been the incident in Ramallah. Palestinian police had apprehended a group of four Israeli soldiers in civilian clothes - on an undercover mission, say the Palestinians; lost on their way to their post, say the Israelis - and had taken them to the police station in the town. But as word spread that Israelis had been captured, a raging mob of up to 1,000 Palestinians...
...done little to deter online investors from their passion, nor should it if they stick to investing in what they know. "Sure, there's a lot of garbage out there," says Bob Smith, a Houston oil executive. He upgraded his computer five years ago specifically to dump his broker and trade online. He checks the financial Web postings and tunes in to chat sessions on the market. But he also does his own research and notes that the hype-and-con element of Wall Street isn't just online. "Highly paid analysts hype Internet stocks with outrageous price targets, then...