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Sharon is sending envoys to Washington this week to explain his peace plans to the new Bush Administration. "We intend to show that Israel needs a security process as well as a peace process," says Dore Gold, the former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. who is one of Sharon's messengers. The Sharon "security process" will probably aim to ink another interim accord and leave the issues that toppled Barak for much, much later. Says Gold: "To continue with the old diplomatic approach would be like hammering square pegs into round holes." Sharon might be forgiven for thinking...
Since the Soviet fall, Sakhalin Island, off Russia's eastern edge, has seen more than its share of ebullient executives from Western oil giants prospecting for black gold. But few have kept their confidence for long. Most have endured frustrating years waiting for deals to be signed, as bureaucracy, xenophobia and corruption combined to thwart their dreams of bringing Sakhalin's well-known oil riches to the outside world. But in recent months, the oilmen have turned almost giddy--buoyed in equal measure by the high price of crude and President Vladimir Putin's pledge to build a legal foundation...
...perhaps 100 people comfortably. The press was seated on the right (facing the judge) and members of the general public on the left. At the start of the Friday session, the room was only about half full. Several courtroom cops strolled around, dressed in white shirts, black ties and gold badges. They were also wearing large bulky black belts with all sorts of pouches and things hanging off of them - kinda like Dwayne Schneider on "One Day at a Time" - but unlike the sitcom super, the cops in the courtroom were also carrying holstered pistols. Despite their weaponry, many...
...member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame and a gold medal-winning Olympian, Cleary was the men's hockey coach before his appointment as athletic director. In 1989, he led the Crimson to a 31-3 record en route to what remains Harvard's first and only national championship in men's hockey...
...longer has much hold on the American imagination, and "nouveau riche" is no longer an insult (especially among the nouveau not-so-riche). Nobody wants to be like the Europeans anymore, especially since we got so much richer than them. Nobody likes a rich kid. And the dot-com gold rush, however short-lived, only reinforced the idea that America is supposed to be the land of opportunity...