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...pilots, who are similarly prohibited from flying more than a maximum number of hours in a stretch. "If you think of what is really proposed [by the IOM], it is like having a pilot switching over in midflight or asking him to switch over as he's about to land," he says. "'Well, your time is up, it's time for someone else to take over...
Obama has relinquished the previous Administration's approach by prioritizing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the first year of his first term, by showing a willingness to press the Israelis to live up to their commitments under previous agreements - particularly with respect to building settlements on land captured in 1967 - and by raising regional expectations that the U.S. will commit to pressing for a two-state solution. But how can Obama's resolve to move the process forward be turned into policy? (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...
...conflict. That would require outlining the borders between two states (the formula for doing so, based on the 1967 borders, is already enshrined in existing documents such as the "Roadmap"), how to share Jerusalem, the fate of West Bank settlements and of Palestinian refugee families who lost land and homes inside Israel in 1948. In such a scenario, the focus of diplomacy would shift to coaxing, cajoling and nudging both sides toward implementing such a solution. (See pictures of George W. Bush in the Middle East...
...President's two sons, in turn, have come under fire for allegedly using their famous family name to close a lucrative land deal. Even the army has been shaken by accusations that soldiers killed as many as 1,600 civilians and dressed them up as guerrillas to run up the body count and earn cash bonuses. "Uribe already has too much power. He controls the legislature. He has growing influence on the judiciary," says Daniel Coronell, a columnist and TV journalist. "A third term for Uribe would be dangerous for Colombian democracy...
...rebels tried to kidnap him at his farm near Pereira. The attack left him partially paralyzed and in a wheelchair. "What happened to me happened to many Colombians," Castro said. "But Uribe has taken on the narcos and the bandits, and we've been able to return to our land. If you ask me who I'm voting for, I will tell you: Uribe, of course...