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...assassinations are repeated for each successive replacement leadership. (Rantisi has already escaped one attempt on his life.) For Hamas, that means adapting the leadership structures to make them less dependent on the survival of specific individuals. Under those circumstances, efforts by the PA, Egypt and others interested parties to broker some form of truce may become that much more difficult. And that, in turn effectively ends any prospect in the immediate future for a peace process that requires Hamas sanction, leaving the PA as a lame duck and the Islamists ascendant in the street...
...looking for?--hardball," Stewart said. Hardball host Chris Matthews rejoined on the air that if Stewart appears on Matthews' show, Tutu can do The Daily Show. Great. Tutu sits through seven years of harrowing testimony on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission only to have to broker this...
...then run by her friend Sam Waksal had been riding high on its promising cancer drug. But on Dec. 26, 2001, Waksal got wind that the FDA was going to reject his company's application to move forward with its drug. The Waksal family sent word to Bacanovic, their broker as well as Stewart's, and tried to sell $7.3 million of ImClone stock. Waksal has since pleaded guilty to securities fraud and other charges and is serving a seven-year prison sentence...
...Philippe is the muscle behind the movement, Dany Toussaint is the kind of shadowy power broker who could emerge as the country's next leader. Toussaint, who is patiently waiting out the civil war inside his mansion overlooking Port-au-Prince, next to a commercial shooting range he owns, is a former Aristide bodyguard who once headed Haiti's police force. He adroitly made a clean break with the President and his Lavalas Party last year when it seemed Aristide's popularity was plummeting. Toussaint, 46, is no stranger to controversy; he has been investigated by Haitian and U.S. officials...
Philippe, who seems certain to emerge as a Haitian power broker if his uprising succeeds, insists that things will get better. He claims he wants to revive democratic institutions that he says Aristide has smothered--including the military that Aristide dismantled in 1995. "I'm not fighting for personal political power," says Philippe. "Democracy is not a five-year term, it's a set of principles." But Philippe, who fled Haiti in 2000 under suspicion of ties to drug trafficking and returned only last month to lead the uprising, has his own issues. According to classified Haitian documents seen...