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...much a generation gap as a gulf between the experience of different elements of the Palestinian leadership. Those who grew up under Israeli occupation are increasingly skeptical of the abilities of the leaders who came from abroad. They see themselves as the ones who know how to handle the Israelis, and they believe that the returning exiles have achieved pitifully little after seven years of negotiation. A growing number of Palestinians blame not only the Israelis, but also their current leadership for their current plight, and that makes the current intifada also an implicit protest against the Palestinian establishment...
...When he couldn't close the gap after 15 days, Clinton called it quits and publicly chastised Arafat for not being as bold as Barak during the summit. The President's reaction was designed to prop up Barak, whose governing coalition was crumbing back home. "But the U.S. committed a very serious mistake by pointing fingers at the Palestinian side," insists Hasan Abdul Rahman, the PLO's Washington representative...
...achievement gap as I see it is not 'Can the South Bronx catch up with Scarsdale?' but, 'Can students in the South Bronx do the work for their grade level...
After the break, a resilient Cornell team pressed on, as Rahne threw two more touchdown passes in the second half, including a 54-yard toss to Ferguson. Trying to close the insurmountable gap, the Big Red also got three short touchdown runs from tailback Justin Dunleavy...
...Both men are spending and stumping in crucial states they expected to be able to ignore by now. Gore is still playing defense in California, Bush in Florida. Gore has Nader gnawing on his left flank in the Northwest and Midwest battlegrounds; Bush is struggling with a gender gap and a slight undecideds problem. Each is trying to lure a constituency to the polls - Gore the poor, Bush the young - that has never bothered to show up before...