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...When it comes to dealing with Israel's neighbors, better a hawk (Netanyahu) in sheep's clothing than a sheep (Peres) in hawk's clothing." JOSEPH MINKOWITZ Toronto...
Questions of character also counted. An aura of slipperiness has long dogged Peres' five-decade political career. Once a relative hawk who helped launch the very first West Bank settlements in the 1970s, Peres turned into a promoter of peace so dreamy that his about-face was read by some as proof he had no principles. Other voters were repelled by a history of devious political infighting they saw as self-serving manipulation. At home he is tagged a congenital loser, unable to secure a single unambiguous victory for Labor in four previous tries...
...glimpsed in the marches against the war in Chechnya by mothers of draft-age men, in the anti-Kremlin diatribes printed by tabloids that leave an unpleasant ink smudge on the fingers. There are less appetizing signs as well in the thuggish youths wearing gym suits who hawk alcohol and cigarettes in sheet-metal kiosks, keeping one step ahead of the law, and in the smug young bankers who make million-dollar deals in currency exchange...
...total con. This turbaned guru-of-sorts also told me that my only health problems would involve my digestive tract; three weeks later I was hospitalized for paratyphoid fever, also known as intestinal salmonella. So we'll suspend our skepticism for him, even though he tried to hawk his cure for AIDS to my physician mother so she could market it in the United States...
...dialogue on the Fed. Unlike investment banker Felix Rohatyn, who withdrew his name from Fed consideration under heavy criticism of his economic philosophies from Senate Republicans, "Rivlin should not have a hard time getting confirmed by the Senate," says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister. "She is known as a deficit hawk, more so than almost anyone in the administration. Although she would probably be more inclined to lower interest rates than Greenspan, she's not a real liberal 'soft money' person, and so she should be acceptable to Republicans." There are signs that Greenspan may be bending a bit to Clinton...