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Barak's failure, even after months of continued concessions and daily offers of sweeter deals, finally discredited the activists in Israel's peace camp. Palestinians insist that Israel cannot dictate peace terms to them until they're good and ready, and the boycott of the recent elections by Israeli Arabs reinforced the message that, from the Palestinian perspective, nothing Israel does will affect their position. By denying any significant difference between Sharon and Barak, as Arafat seemed to do in his rancorous election-eve speech in Davos, Switzerland, the Palestinians are guaranteeing that the current situation of violence and gridlock...
...that they would order a pullout of American forces from nato?s peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Kosovo. Now the Administration is backing off?Rice has said that ?it is important to review American deployments? but that ?any review will take place with allies.? Still, the U.S. will likely insist that its troop numbers be reduced?even though the U.S. accounts for less than 20% of the total peacekeeping force in the Balkans?and will move toward a burden-sharing arrangement in which the U.S. maintains a token presence on the ground but provides the military backup to deter aggression...
...people were at the very suggestion that Hillary would lean on supporters to furnish her house. The Clintons have long dismissed the criticism of those in the vast right-wing conspiracy whom they don't respect. But how do you dismiss the views of those you do respect--who insist you would never sink so low, until they are silenced by proof of your grasping...
...even if the plane is safe, there are pressing concerns about the military value of the V-22. While the Marines insist the Osprey is ready for production, it has not been approved for combat maneuvers and lacks its required gun. The winds created by its dual 38-ft. rotors are so strong that landing in a desert kicks up sand "brownouts" that can blind pilots and rescuing someone from the sea is made extremely difficult. Marines climbing down ropes from Ospreys in combat simulations aboard ships or oil platforms have to hit the deck and stay there until...
...calls it Faithless, and since he no longer directs films, he has given it to his onetime star and sometime lover, Liv Ullmann, to direct. It is, they both insist, very much her film. Bergman visited her set only once and never intruded on her editing room. Her style is warm, almost glowing, and it makes an ironic comment on a harrowing narrative. More important, her manner may grant Bergman something he cannot grant himself--forgiveness for bad behavior that has haunted him for a half-century. "He wants a woman's vision," says Ullmann, "a woman's experience...