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...Gore plays Hubert Humphrey to Clinton's Lyndon Johnson. And yet rather than going AWOL, Gore has charged into the flames, touting himself as an "active participant" in the policymaking and stating the case for intervention as he campaigns across the country. Kosovo reflects what he has cared about, fought for and forced onto the agenda, even when political prudence would argue for making himself invisible. "He's never ducked on the hard ones," says former National Security Adviser Tony Lake...
...Summers' deputy. The only one unhappy is Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT. She lured the Washington-savvy Eizenstat from the Commerce Department two years ago to grab back some control of international economic policy, which the State Department had ceded to other agencies. Since then, State and Treasury have fought a turf war behind the scenes over control of Washington's response to the Asian financial crisis and Russia's economic bailout. Summers will now have Eizenstat under his wing, instead of his being a Foggy Bottom competitor. The player trade "wasn't Madeleine's first choice," said a senior...
After a hard-fought battle with brain cancer, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Ernest G. Peralta died at his Cambridge home on Monday...
Whether NATO will become the K.L.A.'s armorer remains to be seen. The K.L.A., as U.S. officials are quick to point out, is not going to become a 1990s version of the contras, the U.S.-backed insurgent group that fought to overthrow a communist regime in Nicaragua in the 1980s. For starters, no one wants to use the K.L.A. to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. And no one wants the war to go on long enough for the K.L.A. to assume contra-like proportions. Most important, however, NATO officials are worried that a well-armed and well-trained K.L.A. would veer into...
...Summers' deputy. The only one unhappy is Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. She lured the Washington-savvy Eizenstat from the Commerce Department two years ago to grab back some control of international economic policy, which the State Department had ceded to other agencies. Since then, State and Treasury have fought a turf war behind the scenes over control of Washington's response to the Asian financial crisis and Russia's economic bailout. Summers will now have Eizenstat under his wing, instead of having him as a Foggy Bottom competitor. The player trade "wasn't Madeleine's first choice," said...