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...Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had earlier endorsed Tenet's plan, but with plenty of reservations of his own. "I can't say I am enthusiastic about the plan, but on the whole we can work and move forward," Sharon told an audience of Israeli businessmen Tuesday. Having risen in Western public opinion because of Israel's restraint following the suicide bomb in a Tel Aviv disco 11 days ago, the Israeli leader was content to feel pressure from his right flank in order to retain the diplomatic high ground. And having blundered, initially, Arafat added his approval in order...
...keep jury-rigging solutions. Last year, when encephalitis broke out in Juarez, El Paso's spray planes "accidentally" crossed the border to wipe out disease-carrying mosquitoes. To reduce air pollution, El Paso is helping Juarez brickmakers redesign their kilns. And to eliminate the epic waits at border crossings, businessmen (from both sides of the border) fought for--and won--a "fast lane" for U.S. and Mexican citizens who are precleared by U.S. law enforcement agencies...
Smith is one of Boston's leading businessmen. Chairman and CEO of Harcourt General, Inc. and the Neiman Marcus Group, Smith has spent much of his life working in the non-profit sector, serving as chair of the board of both the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Facing History and Ourselves Foundation...
When he isn’t accompanying Japanese businessmen on jaunts through Northeastern lumberyards, acting as their American liaison and interpreter, Egashira takes what money he has made and heads off to the seldom traveled sectors of the globe. He has successfully completed a 100-mile solo hike in the Rocky Mountains, a trip to the Arctic and one to Greenland...
...qualms aroused by his rabble rousing during the 1980s. Many people will never forgive him for claiming, with no evidence, that a young white prosecutor named Steven Pagones took part in the rape of Tawana Brawley, a black teenager whose story has been thoroughly discredited. A group of black businessmen has paid the $65,000 defamation judgment Pagones won from Sharpton in 1998. But Sharpton has yet to apologize...