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With Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinians lined around the table, Israel was counting on the United States to be, if not sympathetic to her longtime ally, at least an honest broker in the peace negotiations. The Bush administration response represents the first time in a while that Israel not only has to second guess American intentions, but also the president's fundamental support...
...fund the expansion and modernization of old ones, but at a tiny fraction of the cost of an across-the-board cut. It would be a boon for Wall Street, making it that much easier to issue new securities. And it would be a snap to administer, because broker confirmation slips already denote newly issued stocks and bonds. In short, it would be cheap, it would be simple, and it would do exactly what the Administration claims it wants to do: stimulate new investment to improve productivity and create jobs...
...Harken Energy folks are not the only Texas-based colleagues of George W. Bush with fortuitous, if not extraordinary, Arab connections. Another is the mysterious Houston businessman James R. Bath, a deal broker whose alleged associations run from the CIA to a major shareholder and director of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International. The President's son has denied that he ever had business dealings with Bath, but early 1980s tax records reviewed by TIME show that Bath invested $50,000 in Bush's energy ventures and remained a stockholder until Bush sold his company to Harken...
...Kennedy's time have discipline and determination been so pervasive in an administration. Lyndon Johnson managed his domestic agenda with an iron hand, but when it came to running the Vietnam War his ignorance of world affairs made him uncertain. The opposite was true of Nixon, the consummate power broker in global matters but a fellow who never mastered the folkways of the capital. And neither Johnson nor Nixon held the depth of respect from their staff that Bush now enjoys...
...story. We expect our lives to be perfect, and when they are not--our babies are born with nine toes, our fenders are dented, our bonds are devalued, we slip on an icy sidewalk, we get hit by a foul ball--we blame somebody (the doctor, the garage, the broker, the city, the team...