Word: knottiest
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...Could such an arrangement work? Among Palestinians, it would face opposition from Hamas, which runs Gaza but would be excluded from the deal; among Israelis, it would provoke conservatives who would object to the inevitable dismantling of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Many of the knottiest issues, including the status of Jerusalem, would still be unresolved. But a deal on an interim Palestinian state would provide some measure of hope and allow Obama to show he is capable of extracting concessions from both sides. At this point, the alternative is more misunderstanding, bitterness and despair - a grim legacy...
...theater, the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Tuesday into Toyota's troubles had everything you could hope for: testy exchanges, Clintonian hairsplitting, obnoxious grandstanding, tearful testimony and even multiple references to Marisa Tomei's automotive wizardry in My Cousin Vinny. But the spectacle failed to untangle the knottiest question looming over the proceedings: whether Toyota has definitively pinpointed the problem causing its cars to accelerate out of control...