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...secret to the Democratic Party's astonishing rebirth in the South. Last week in Alabama and South Carolina, two states that had been trending hard toward the G.O.P., Democrats ousted sitting Republican Governors by single-mindedly pledging to follow Georgia into the scratch-and-win business. Political consultants predict the issue will dominate next year's legislative session in Tennessee and the Governor's race in North Carolina in the year...
...hard to predict," he says...
...Federal Election Commission does with its auditors' recommendations that the Clinton and Dole campaigns both repay the $13-plus million they got in public funds for their primary campaigns. Meanwhile, the outcomes of Justice's other probes, on misstatements by Harold Ickes and AL GORE, are harder to predict...
Though the CIA has had its setbacks in the region--it failed to predict the Shah's 1979 fall in Iran and Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990--the agency retains a mystique in the Arab world. "For Arafat, it's a big deal to be dealing with the head of the CIA," says a senior State Department official. The P.L.O. chairman and Tenet have taken pains to cultivate each other. During Tenet's first visit to the West Bank in 1996, Arafat arranged for Tenet, who is Greek Orthodox, to tour Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, guided...
Real pessimists predict a three-year bloodbath, especially if upper-crust vacationers don't show up in the predicted numbers, leaving half-empty high-cost hotels. The Strip's bread-and-butter visitor isn't likely to trade up to $150-a-night rooms from $49 ones, even if there's a mint on the pillow. Hilton chief Bollenbach (who is also on the board at Time Warner, the parent company of TIME) is predicting 18 months of bruising battles, with older, smaller properties taking a hit from big outfits like...