Word: brokering
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...political concerns. The Philippines has a new President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and she announced from the start that she had no intention of suffering the humiliation dealt predecessor Joseph Estrada last year. Estrada succumbed to Malaysian and European pleas to hold the troops back and allowed Libya to broker a ransom deal. As a result, the ragtag band of one year ago has grown into a kidnapping army that can only get more audacious with every success. With Washington's backing, Arroyo refused all negotiation and ordered 5,000 troops into the scattered Sulu archipelago to, in the words...
...Coin dealers in Louisiana have gotten their senator, John Breaux, to propose an amendment they're itching to get passed: allowing investments in rare coins that are traded by brokers to be put in individual retirement accounts. The coin market has gone into orbit the last 20 years with some rare currencies commanding million-dollar price tags. Numismatists have a powerful lobby on Capitol Hill, and coin dealers have been fighting hard to repeal a 1981 law barring rare coins from being included in IRAs. No, you couldn't turn that penny jar you've got stored in the closet...
...evolved into a masterly manipulator of New York's tabloid press and an astute political power broker, but his army of critics charges that he has not outgrown a tendency to play the crassest kind of racial politics. Case in point: the convoluted New York imbroglio this month in which Sharpton was reported to have offered to endorse Bronx borough president Fernando Ferrer--a Puerto Rican who's trying to win the Democratic mayoral nomination by building a coalition of Latino and black voters--if and only if Ferrer backed a slate of black candidates Sharpton favored. The New York...
That's a good description of the 880 members of the Los Angeles cooperative, three-quarters of whom have AIDS. The rest suffer from cancer, multiple sclerosis or other diseases, and all have marijuana prescriptions fromm licensed physicians. Leanne Orgen, 46, an insurance broker with liver cancer, buys pot-laced chocolate-chunk brownies--a "miracle drug" for chemotherapy-induced nausea, she says. Jeffrey Farrington, 32, who has glaucoma, explains that if he stops smoking marijuana, which relieves ocular pressure, he loses more than 7 ft. of vision daily. "If they shut us down," he says, "I'll go blind...
...diplomat to consult with both sides over their attitudes to the Mitchell proposals, but President Bush clearly has no intention of reprising anything close to the hand-on role played by President Clinton, and even Secretary of State Colin Powell is steering clear of personal involvement in efforts to broker a cease-fire - precisely because the risk of failure, and the inevitable blow to U.S. prestige, is too high. And the cautious distance maintained by the Bush administration may be its most eloquent statement on the prospects for stopping the violence any time soon...