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...quite now or never, but certainly now-or-a-lot-later for Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat. President Clinton held talks with the Israeli leader in Portugal Thursday, hoping to jump-start the stalled Israeli-Palestinian track of the Middle East peace process. Both sides had previously committed themselves to concluding a final agreement by September, but that looks increasingly difficult as major differences remain unresolved: over how much of the West Bank Israel will cede to an eventual Palestinian state; over the status of East Jerusalem; over the future of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees that Israel...
...George Pataki A strong statewide candidate and fund-raising powerhouse, but Rudy's an old rival, and Pataki says he's no understudy. Local Rich Guy Teddy Forstmann Could jump-start his campaign with his own money, and some GOPers love the idea of a slew of Hillary attack ads on someone else's dime. But rich-guy first-timers never win, especially against first l Rep. Peter King A likable fellow and Irish peace player who also voted not to impeach Mr. Clinton, so his standing with conservatives may be shaky. Rep. Rick Lazio Just...
...Israel-Syria peace deal is now unlikely to come on Bill Clinton's watch, perhaps not even on President Hafez Assad's. President Clinton left empty-handed from a Geneva encounter with the Syrian leader Sunday, in which he'd hoped he could jump-start a new round of Israel-Syria talks. The President, like many who've tried before, found that the disagreement over the extent of Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights remains too fundamental to allow any movement. And while the two neighbors have for 26 years managed to avoid a war despite the absence of such...
Proust had his yummy Madeleine to trigger the imagination. Antrim serves blueberry pancakes to jump-start the wackiness in his latest comedy of bad manners. Last time it was a raucous family reunion (The Hundred Brothers). Now it's a gathering of psychoanalysts putting mind over batter at the Pancake House & Bar. Stuffing themselves with comfort food, the shrinks cross egos and libidos while pondering such subjects as Self/Other Friction Theory. Antrim's brand of social satire is an acquired taste, but it takes only a few pages to acquire...
Only a genetic "footprint" of that plague year has been found. Yet Kolata has made the most of the ongoing mystery. She has produced not only a chilling read but also a book that, like Paul de Kruif's classic Microbe Hunters, could jump-start a new generation of medical researchers...