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...would be expected to underwrite such a deal. And with a majority of the Knesset voting against Barak at last count, the Israeli leader's ability to deliver is considerably diminished - and the experience of having to negotiate with Benjamin Netanyahu in implementing a deal struck by his predecessor will be one the Palestinians won't be looking to repeat. So it may suit both sides now to simply continue making piecemeal agreements rather than trying to conclude a final deal, even if that leaves high and dry a U.S. president who's invested so much of his time...
...Adlai's '56 running mate 46. "That's the __ of my worries" 47. Long-jawed swimmers 49. It has accepted a plan to end its two-year-old border war 51. Jessye Norman specialty 52. Jackie's dress designer 53. Faberge creation 54. Fokker foe 55. Jaworski's predecessor 56. IV hooker-uppers...
...suspects and hopes our souls will survive. In fact, viewers may reject VTV altogether before long. In Holland, Big Brother's follow-up, De Bus, drew just 5.7% of viewers, compared with 53% for its predecessor, even though its pretty young contestants all shared the same 5-m-wide bed on their communal-living bus. Survivor, gripping as it may currently be, seems like it should be in the dictionary under novelty. And Big Brother, with its less exotic setting and nightly schedule, may prove a Big Bore once viewers sample it. Not that you're the sort of person...
...Jersey Senate nomination 34. High dudgeon 37. Reuben need 39. Hardly a blabbermouth 41. 1998 animated film 43. Phrase in disco names 44. Iron: prefix 45. He's at odds with 16-Down 47. OPEC units 48. Fool 49. Org. that will study cell-phone safety 50. Trent's predecessor 52. Simile center 53. Prefix with plunk or flop...
This is not necessarily an improvement, but it's not a total disaster either. Jackson is as fast with a contemptuous quip as he is with his fists; and if he is not quite the cool sexual outlaw that his predecessor was, that's all right too, since "blaxploitation" was never more than a passing fad--a more or less genial way of asserting black studdishness while giving white liberals the jimjams...