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...declare a Palestinian state if no deal was reached by the deadline, but off the record his aides have always made it abundantly clear that he won't tempt fate while the U.S. election season heats up and Ehud Barak's beleaguered government faces mounting pressure on its right flank. And the Israeli leader, whose immediate priority now is to simply survive in office when his parliament reconvenes in the fall, can't afford to allow relations with the Palestinians to collapse either. So Arafat and Barak will keep talking and continue to cooperate on the basis of the existing...
...that the GOP has borrowed most of the Democrats' tried-and-true messages, and are working overtime to prove they are actually the party of diversity, the Dems are countering by eschewing their traditional left flank and moving to meet their adversaries in that nebulous region known as the political center. That means, of course, that the old lefties are left high and dry, aching for even a faint echo of the battle cries of yesteryear. And they're certainly not going to get it from Joe Lieberman or Al Gore...
...same time, their short list suggests that Gore's handlers were also concerned to stanch the bleeding on their left flank, where Ralph Nader may prove to be more than simply a gadfly. And while Lieberman's hawkish positions on defense haven't exactly endeared him to the Democratic party left, he's tended to vote with liberals on taxes, abortion, gun control and other social issues. He's a moved-to-the-center kind of liberal with a reputation for integrity, and relatively straight-shooting. The Democrats are spinning it as a bold move to grab the center, citing...
...protesters started down four miles of Broad Street. Placards and banners alternated with chanters ("Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Poverty has got to go!"); a 13-wheelchair convoy of accessible housing advocates; and a giant elephant head with a cleverly hinged trunk. One protesting canine had "LOVE" shaved into his flank (missed, it seems, by the PETA contingent in giant pig costumes who cruised through the throng in a red Mustang convertible). Tuesday's demonstrators primarily targeted homelessness and poverty, with the occasional chant against HMOs and for the abolition of private property. Protesters were by and large young and white...
This is a sensation I have come to be accustomed to in Westminster. Everything here, from Big Ben casting its massive shadow down into the courtyards to the statues of Churchill and Gladstone which flank the entrance to the Commons remind you of the almost entirely male history of parliament. And it is not simply a male history--it is as much a history of privilege and class. My working-class MP, who represents a former mining community in the North East, was almost as out of place that day as I was. Maybe more so; after all, I could...