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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to propose that Israel and the Palestinians immediately launch intensive negotiations, to be capped by a Camp David-style summit, to determine the final status of the Palestinian territories rather than proceed with a step-by-step implementation of Israeli withdrawals from the West Bank under the Oslo accords. In an interview with TIME editors on Wednesday, Netanyahu said he presented this idea to King Hussein of Jordan when he visited Jerusalem on Sunday. He characterized Jordanian and American reaction as being "intrigued." He said that the strategy of negotiating phased withdrawals...
...told party leaders that food shortages could set off widespread rioting in North Korea, despite the government's strong grip on power, and that even military personnel were hungry. Kim is quoted as saying: "If the U.S. imperialists knew that our military doesn't have food, they would launch an invasion." The validity of the report has not been confirmed, and the South Korean press has a long history of publishing anti-North propaganda. But two years of flooding have wiped out harvests in many areas, producing a genuine food crisis. If Kim and the North Korean government did fear...
Powell says the project "fit with my priorities," but he didn't want to be involved in a fuzzy-headed launch of a feel-good balloon that would simply drift away. "I said no to offers to chair studies, to sit on boards to examine the cities. I wanted concrete goals, a focus on kids, deliverable results and a way to continue beyond the summit." Convinced that Chambers and the other organizers wanted those things as well, he agreed to join Clinton and Bush at a White House ceremony on Jan. 24 to announce the summit...
Before the launch of the project, Powell has already made volunteerism safe for Real Men, rescuing it from its second-class status as women's work. And his timing is impeccable. As politics declines ever further, he has taken on the task of revitalizing civic life, which if successful will only raise the clamor for him to salvage politics as well. Perhaps the odor will get so bad that the presidency will be virtually handed to him, a four-star general of his own all-volunteer army...
...shooting, begging to improvise his part in a more radio-like fashion before finally settling down and finding that he actually enjoyed memorizing lines and hitting marks. Ivan Reitman, the director (Dave) who produced Private Parts, believes, not surprisingly, that Stern's performance is strong enough to launch full-blown movie stardom; Reitman has even talked with Stern (who just signed a new radio contract) about taking the lead in an "edgy" romantic comedy. Reitman says he can also envision a series of films in which Stern continues to play a version of himself, in much the same way Jack...