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Tony Blair will need all of his considerable charm to smooth Benjamin Netanyahu?s ruffled feathers when he visits Israel next month to encourage the Mideast peace process. The Israeli leader yesterday canceled dinner with British foreign secretary Robin Cook -- refusing even a public handshake -- after Mr. Cook met with a Palestinian leader near a disputed Israeli settlement in Arab East Jerusalem...
...Cook was trying to relay the European Union?s belief that such Israeli settlements imperil the peace process,? says TIME London correspondent Helen Gibson. ?But he appears to have handled it really badly, and to have created major problems ahead of Blair?s visit next month.? Then again, with Netanyahu insisting that such settlement activity is non-negotiable, there may have been no diplomatic way for Cook to make his point...
JERUSALEM: Touring the Mideast as an emissary of the European Union, British foreign secretary Robin Cook heard today that his divorce had been granted, leaving him free to marry his mistress. And that's about the best news he?s likely to get on this trip, according to TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer...
...major diplomatic rebuff, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a dinner with Cook after the foreign secretary met with Palestinian representatives in Arab East Jerusalem. Netanyahu?s move is a sign of the limits of E.U. leverage in the Mideast peace process: "The European Union has no influence whatsoever over Israel," says Beyer. "To say even that Cook's visit will achieve very little would be an unrealistically high expectation...
College poses this odd, transitory period in which you are allowed to sample the independent life while not yet assuming the full responsibilities of an adult. You do your own laundry, but you don't cook your meals. You manage your bank accounts, but you don't pay the electricity bills. You fit in no other pre-defined age group, and constitute your own class, the college years. This time is a unique opportunity to retain that which was best of our high school days and that which will be best of our postgraduation days...