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...investors see even worse ahead for their own economies. And if the dollar stays strong relative to the yen and the euro, that means still more pain for U.S. manufacturers, who'll have more trouble competing with lower-priced foreign goods. In Wall Street's eyes, all that spells doom...
...Bush's ebullient address to Congress should serve as a stark reminder to Democrats still trying to decipher Gore's loss to Bush: Most Americans don't need or want to be reminded that life is hard, money is tight and things could be better. The gloom and doom implicit the Democrats' message may, in fact, be more realistic than the goofily optimistic tone Bush likes to set. But, as Reagan-era Democratic veterans should know, reality is often far less appealing to voters than a dose of uncomplicated good cheer...
...offer short-term withdrawal from only another 13 percent of the West Bank, and invite the Palestinians to negotiate further. Rather than shutting down the process altogether, he's more likely to work to keep channels open and prevent himself being isolated as a hard-liner, which might ultimately doom him domestically...
...keep the process going, neither side can afford to bring it to a conclusion any time soon. The denouement scripted by Washington in these final weeks has failed to tempt either Arafat or Barak to commit to their roles because its basic propositions contained the seeds of domestic political doom for both men. And that appears to be the reality President Clinton has failed to grasp in his attempt to pass the peacemaker baton to President-elect Bush. Right now, both sides can commit to an open-ended process that helps them manage their conflict - to a process, in other...
...like to say that I stopped, that I learned my lesson and never again played a computer game way, way more than is healthy, but I can't. Instead, I graduated to the harder stuff: Tetris, of course, Hearts, Doom, Bust-A-Move3. By then I was also doing console games--PlayStation and Nintendo 64, mostly, with some GameBoy thrown in for maintenance--and had involved my innocent wife as a co-dependent. In fact, she was the first one I hooked when I was recently turned on to a free game called Alchemy...