Word: leader
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...aftermath of a shooting spree by a World Church of the Creator member, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz said last week he is no longer willing to represent the organization's leader, Matthew F. Hale, in his quest for bar membership...
...face time Thursday, plus an intimate double-date dinner and sleepover at Camp David ?- and he didn?t even have to make a campaign contribution. Why the elaborate courtship? The President badly needs a durable Middle East settlement to crown his legacy, and Barak is the first Israeli leader since Yitzhak Rabin who seems able to deliver. Clinton was never comfortable dragging Benjamin Netanyahu kicking and screaming into land-for-peace agreements, and he?ll welcome Barak?s intention to energetically pursue the process himself...
...denial of treatment. Republicans, while pressing for some of the same reforms, are seeking a more limited bill covering fewer people and with no broad new rights to sue. Turning up the heat on Tuesday, President Clinton called the Republican proposals "toothless, half-hearted protections." Countered Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott: "We want solutions, not problems caused by courts...
Even at his most strident, Mahbubani writes with a diplomat's charm, gleefully untangling political knots into simple threads. The book has a special force because it comes from a man who is a prototype 21st century leader--he has his own URL--and a leading candidate to one day succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. Secretary-General. That pedigree is surely responsible for some of his buzz, but the ambassador's book is anything but a faddish flash...
...shouldn?t Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif claim victory in Kashmir? After all, Slobodan Milosevic called his ignominious exit from Kosovo a victory, too. And, sorry Mr. Sharif, but it looks like you'll have as hard a time as the Serb leader in convincing your electorate that they have anything to celebrate in the withdrawal of their forces from the Indian side of Kashmir agreed to by Pakistan on Sunday. Pakistan?s prime objective in occupying strategic peaks in Indian territory, says Nawaz, was to "internationalize" its claim on the disputed territory. It was also...