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Jordan's King of nearly a half-century had always been both a fatalist and an optimist. So after six months of unsuccessful treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hussein bin Talal abruptly anointed as successor a little-known son, Abdullah, who promised the failing monarch "to follow in your footsteps...
BELGRADE: Madeleine Albright is nothing if not an optimist. The secretary of state's new peace plan for Kosovo "is more of a wish list than a proposal," says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. Although it extends NATO's military options to include peacekeeping ground troops, the plan is premised on a hypothetical agreement between the Serb government and ethnic Albanian rebels on autonomy -- but not independence -- for Kosovo. "The possibility of any agreement between the Serbs and the Albanians is very slight," says Anastasijevic. "Most ethnic Albanian parties won't even negotiate about anything short of independence, and Milosevic...
...Movie" and "Part Man, Part Monkey"--are intended to be humorous and satirical, but Sprinsteen has always done best when conveying gentle humor and playfulness not through clever lyrics but through whimsical music, as in Born in the U.S.A.'s "Glory Days." Those who appreciate the hardscrabble optimist Springsteen of Joad will love "The Wish" and "The Honeymooners," but some will perhaps not in the plainly autobiographical lyrics of "The Wish" Springsteen's desire to ingratiate himself through bare confessional...
More striking than any of the board members' numerical forecasts, however, is the marked change in the overall tone of some of their comments. Sinai, usually a sturdy optimist, now sees "the greatest risk to good times since 1989-91," the period that included the last outright recession, and though he predicts only a growth recession, he immediately adds that "I can't guarantee there will not be a recession in a traditional sense...
...going to play optimist and claim it's just a phase. It's not that grapes are the only thing we can get worked up about; it's that we are temporarily living in a bubble. I have no connection with my current surroundings, and for the moment it's valid to continue a long-distance voting relationship even though it's hard to care with so many miles between. But it can't stay this...