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...Palestinian refugees allowed to return to their homes, Arafat spent the first four days delivering monologues. When he wouldn't look at a map Barak had drawn with new boundaries, Clinton finally blew up. "This is ridiculous!" the President shouted. "This is not the way to negotiate. If you insist on stonewalling, this is going to go nowhere...
Meanwhile, Republicans insist on repeal. That won't happen this year; Democrats say they've got the votes to sustain a veto. But Republicans figure they will get it next year, under President George W. Bush...
That's what cell phones are for: Much of the hallway chatter in Okinawa was about the strange near-death and rebirth of the Camp David talks just hours before Clinton departed last Wednesday. Officials insist it was not a ploy. In fact, National Security Council spokesman P. J. Crowley left Thurmont after announcing the talks were done and started driving back to the White House in preparation for leaving for Japan. As he drove, knowing that Clinton would have to motorcade back because bad weather grounded the chopper, he kept looking in his rear-view mirror for the speeding...
...computer specialists insist that Carnivore is actually a pussycat of a program. "The tool," or simply "it," as the program is now gingerly called, doesn't sweep the Internet for key words in text or subject line. Rather, deployed within an Internet service provider network known to be used by a criminal suspect, it searches out unique "authentication strings" - screen name, password, telephone number - that are generated whenever the suspect connects to the ISP. All the e-mails identified by those strings are downloaded to an FBI computer housed in a closed container at the ISP office. When the surveillance...
...Today story, debate rages over whether this newly sloganized "insist and assist" attitude - set the standards and bend over backward helping everybody get through - constitutes a lowering of the bar or an enlightenment of philosophy. In the age of push-button wars and untold desk jobs, isn't the Army just being smart by being patient? Or is a 10 percent failure rate - from serious injury or mental incompatibility, usually - an insult to the supposed test of mettle that boot camp was once supposed...