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...July of Faisal Husseini, the revered Palestinian figurehead of East Jerusalem, Nusseibeh has gradually assumed that leadership role. The scion of a family that came to Jerusalem with the Caliph Omar 1,300 years ago, Nusseibeh, 52, stands out among the city?s remaining political leaders. He carries intellectual heft as the head of Al-Quds University and wields political clout as the organizer of Jerusalem?s 1987-93 intifadeh, which helped spur Israeli leaders to negotiate with the Palestinians. Nusseibeh is using his position to push a dovish line at a time when extremists have the upper hand...
...Washington the perception of power certainly is as important as what is written in an Executive Order. How Ridge manipulates that image with other departments will determine his heft. "He's got to say, 'This is what the President wants,' with a cold steely eye, which Tom Ridge is good at," says Senator Pat Roberts, a G.O.P. member of the Intelligence Committee. But the bureaucracy has seen coordinators come and go, and it's very deft at staring them down...
PAUL O'NEILL Treasury Secretary lacks heft on Street, fiddles as economy and markets keep plummeting...
...combined company will rival IBM in size and revenue, and theoretically it will leapfrog Dell in sales of PCs and midrange servers, the machines that act as the Internet's traffic cops. What is in doubt is whether Fiorina can put this heft to good use--and avoid the impact of any further downturn in consumer spending--by selling information-technology services along with hardware to corporations at a healthy profit. It's the hottest area of IT right now and will be for some time...
...weaker economy. The President's tax cut had a price too: it leaves less surplus to pay down the nation's debt, a condition that puts upward pressure on yields. Inflation--the scourge of fixed incomes--has doubled from its low 1.6% annual rate 18 months ago, lending heft to bond-pit suspicions that a recovery has taken root...