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With Yasser Arafat re-leased from his month-long confinement in Ramallah and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon set to visit Washington for talks this week with President Bush, the Middle East crisis is on the verge of a new round of diplomatic struggle. Israeli officials tell Time that Sharon...
The town's old quarter, which on the map looks like a boot giving the fat brown snake of the Mekong a kick in the belly, is a conservationist's paradise: a kind of colonial Disneyland with lane after unspoiled, palm-fringed lane filled with French brick and stucco buildings...
"That's what I'd say if I were them," counters Dawn Hudson, Pepsi's senior vice president of strategy and marketing. Beneath Coke's outward calm, executives are seething over the NFL loss. The last thing the company wanted was a high-profile setback while Pepsi was gaining share...
Covering Afghanistan, this is not. I check into the elegant Victory Hotel on Shamian Island. The hotel was built by the British in the 1920s as the Victoria; in efficient Guangzhou fashion, the postrevolution name change to the Victory Hotel glorified the communists while requiring a minimum of new letters...
Arafat too had a special incentive for the concession that he made. He is eager to attend a summit of Arab leaders in Beirut later this month so that he can show he remains relevant on the world stage. But since December, the Israelis have kept him pinned inside the...