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...glittering cast of characters includes a disgruntled Iraqi administration and the vital members of the White House gang. Davis also offers the twist of using the real-life figures of political life that we've come to know and revile. This allows us the comic relief of seeing our fine Arkansan leader in unguarded moments: "That's bullshit!" or "He's going to start World War III!" Or fair Saddam's familial side, "slapping his son-in-law on the back." What...
...even for seasoned workers such as Davis, the job is a high-wire act. "People who work in emergency response are like the first Marines on the beach: you don't know what kind of situation you're walking into," he says. "You're in a gang neighborhood. You knock on a door and you can find yourself in a room full of people. Maybe the woman has a black eye. Where are the kids? You're keeping real cool, trying to assess the situation." Bernadette Boozer, who works some of the toughest housing projects in Washington, explains that because...
...before the Israeli army is to pull out of the West Bank town of Nablus have put a crucial phase of the Israel-PLO autonomy agreement in doubt. Thursday, troops fired tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades at the Fatah Hawks after Ahmed Tabouk, head of the Palestinian gang, led armed followers through the town firing hundreds of bullets into the air and hurling stones at passing Israeli military vehicles. TIME's Jamil Hamad reports from the West Bank: "These protests will continue because it is no longer a minority of Palestinians who oppose the peace agreement...
...wonder. One participant said the next confab, set for Dec. 3, will go a long way toward deciding which of the Gang of Seven is going to run. In the meantime, they have had a lot to say to each other. Their first conference call, on Oct. 22, lasted nearly two hours and ended with an agreement that members of the group would write papers and circulate the documents among themselves. In their second two-hour conversation last week, members of the group debated their papers and agreed there is a "huge" hunger for a party that is fiscally conservative...
Walesa behaved rudely toward his opponent, refusing to shake his hand during television debates and referring repeatedly to his service as Minister of Youth Affairs under the communist regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski. "He is a man identified with a gang of thugs," Walesa growled. In a society that values courtly manners, the old electrician's style grated. "He did not realize that democratic power means persuading people," says Geremek...