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...first phase of a $1 billion security barrier that critics say will turn the West Bank into a vast prison. Sharon completed his visit to the U.S. without reprimand for constructing the barrier. U.S. President George W. Bush expressed concern, but dropped the politically loaded term wall in favor of the Israelis' preference: fence...
...whose side they take." Liberians may be prepared to overlook such tactics as long as someone - anyone - turns up to help. In government-controlled Monrovia, civilians huddle against walls and run when they reach an exposed intersection. Food is running out. "We need ECOMOG , George Bush, anyone," says Favor Dennis, a vegetable seller. "We're dying." Liberians have even given up on the aid groups trying to help them. "If the bullets start to fall here, the Red Cross and the international community will evacuate," says Mohammed Sheriff, the head of the John F. Kennedy Hospital. "But the Liberians will...
...been over 2,500 years since the Oracle first offered the ancient Greeks a glimpse of their futures, and soothsaying is still pretty hit and miss. Today's seers may favor predictive software over, say, bird entrails, but if they could really see into the future, they'd be so rich they wouldn't have to tell fortunes for a living. But here's a sure thing: the future's big business. Just ask Peter Schwartz. As chairman of the California-based Global Business Network, a "scenario planning" firm advising corporations and governments, it's Schwartz's job to know...
...North would be rewarded for its blackmail tactics. Hawks like Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld think an agreement of that type during the Clinton Administration allowed Pyongyang to further develop its nuclear programs, and they have resisted direct talks with the North. Instead, they favor increasing sanctions and the interdiction of materiel vital to the North's programs...
Baer catalogs the Saudis' bipartisanship in spreading their cash around Washington. Attempts to cozy up to Bill Clinton and Al Gore are exceeded only by financial ties to George H.W. Bush and attempts to win favor with his son's Administration...