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...strategy of invoking a Palestinian menace -- his campaign is even running TV ads filled with gruesome footage from pre-1996 suicide bombings -- but voters don't appear to be taking the bait. Israelis have become accustomed, since the Oslo Agreement came unstuck in 1996, to a permanent state of low-level crisis in their relations with the Palestinians. "For the voters, this election is not about the peace process," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. And that's left Netanyahu flailing...
...soon as he moves on, the people left behind disperse, "as if the real purpose of the group had now been fulfilled...and there was no longer any compelling reason to remain together." (Now that's Washington.) At another party, Sheffield becomes smitten with Gretchen, a radiant, low-level East Wing staff member who lives with a rising presidential speechwriter named Ben. After Gretchen and the President begin an affair, her face time surpasses Ben's, which sets Tarloff to brooding on the intersection of love and power. If the desire for face time can turn movie stars, corporate barracudas...
Today many women are still underpaid and stuck in low-level jobs, but times are changing. My nominee for business titan is the woman who is determined to make it to the top, who is giving 110% to compete with the boys. She may still get passed over when a promotion is available. When she brings up an idea at a meeting, it may still even now be ignored until a male colleague restates it. If she's feminine, she may be seen as weak. If she's tough, she may be seen as bitchy or grasping...
...seeks to overthrow the Saudi royal family and drive U.S. forces out of Saudi Arabia, away from its holy cities, Mecca and Medina. Bin Laden is nearly everyone's favorite suspect this time too--largely because he is the obvious one. Newsday reported on Sunday that a relatively low-level associate of bin Laden may have been identified by an embassy guard as having been in the truck carrying the bomb in Nairobi. Clinton aides are looking at contingency plans for covert operations to capture bin Laden from his reputed high-tech lair deep inside Afghanistan...
...WINDS OF WAR India is developing nuclear arms, but does it really want to use them? In both winter and summer low-level and high-level wind patterns suggest that if a bomb were dropped on Pakistan (west) or southern China (east), deadly debris and fallout would be blown back across huge swaths of India. How's that for increased national security...