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...direct the campaign toward a single issue: Who is best suited to negotiate the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip? He argues that the Wye accord proves he can make peace, and that it is better to have a right-winger bargain over the final pact than a leftist who will make a sucker deal. It's a powerful argument, Netanyahu knows, and one that keeps him in the running...
...Central Bank will set a single interest rate for Euroland, and a Growth and Stability Pact limits their debts and deficits...
...brought rates across the zone to 3 percent. England needs to follow suit or risk falling behind its trading partners -- high interest rates (in relation to its neighbors) would prop up the pound and slow down England?s exports, spelling recession for sure. England?s disdain for the euro pact means there will be a pound sterling next year. But if the Bank of England continues to follow the euro-zone bankers? lead on monetary policy, the pound note will be the only indication that Britain hasn?t signed...
...dead in her late 40s of a painfully wasting disease. Each man had been her lover in earlier days, as had many others, including Julian Garmony, the Foreign Secretary, who is also present at the service. Linley and Halliday, unnerved by Molly's suffering before she died, make a pact. If one of them develops symptoms that could suddenly leave him helpless, the other will secure, without risking legal repercussions, the means for euthanasia. Apparently, that may be possible in Amsterdam...
...neat twist of fate, Jobs is running Apple again, an interim chairman who seems to be in no hurry to find a replacement. Brought back in a kind of Hail Mary play by a company running out of time, Jobs staged a remarkable turnaround. He signed a peace pact with his nemesis in Redmond, killed off the Apple clones, launched an eye-catching ad campaign ("Think Different"), streamlined his product line, slashed inventory and turned a surprisingly large profit. Suddenly, Apple is cool again, thanks to a sexy, blue, Internet-friendly machine--the iMac--that is almost...