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...accounts, he whipped a flabby Gore operation into something like fighting trim by cutting costs, establishing a chain of command and getting Gore to loosen his iron grip on campaign minutiae. Coelho made the Gore campaign what it is today - shape-shifting, unsure of how best to proceed, but very much within striking distance of George W. Bush...
...Draskovic's withdrawal makes that very unlikely," says Anastasijevic. "Besides, right now the European soccer championships are on, and everyone is at home or in cafes watching the games on television - the revolution is postponed." And while student actions may resume after the final whistle blows, Slobodan Milosevic's grip on power looks even firmer today than it did a year ago, when he surrendered Kosovo...
...more modern view of the world," says TIME State Department correspondent Douglas Waller. "It's probable that he doesn't hate the Israelis as much as his father did, but that doesn't mean he'll jump into a peace deal anytime soon - he has to consolidate his grip on power, and it'll be at least a year before he can even think about reopening talks with Israel. But being of a new generation and looking to the future, he may over the long term prove more willing than his father was to conclude a land-for-peace agreement...
...recover the strategic Golan Heights. Having failed to achieve that goal through the war of 1973 or the proxy war in Lebanon, Assad opened negotiations first in 1994, and then again last year, in the hope of resolving the issue rather than leaving it to an heir whose grip on power would be a lot more tenuous. The U.S.-brokered talks, however, failed to produce a deal that even Assad could sell the Syrians, and it may be years before the winner of the coming power struggle is able to command sufficient political authority to deliver peace with Israel...
...picked up the typewriter and the grip and started through the gate. I had expected Harvard kids to be unfriendly, or, let's say, not entirely egalitarian. In fact, I was there that night, because my high school English teacher kept me after classes so that I would write away for the application to Harvard, and kept me again until I filled...