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Olmert's last official cabinet meeting on Sunday had a touch of the surreal: at first the Premier chatted about Wall Street's woes and Israel's basketball win over the Czech team before announcing offhandedly that he was resigning. Several hours later he dropped his resignation letter off at the President's residence. The normally loquacious Olmert summed up his resignation in two sentences. Peres later said, "I respect the dignified manner in which [Olmert] is transferring authority...
This week's hard-hitting cover story on the Wall Street meltdown was penned by two of our favorite colleagues from Fortune: Andy Serwer, the magazine's dynamic managing editor, and Allan Sloan, one of America's premier business journalists. We're pleased to have them in our pages, and you will...
...recount. Voter turnout in the Kadima primaries was also so low that Israeli newspaper Haaretz noted acidly that 10 times as many Israelis turned out to cast their ballots for the country's version of American Idol as to pick the candidate likely to become the next premier...
...full course load to manage, the current crop of Harvard designers face a problem that most students either abandoned in high school or are not lucky enough to have—how to balance the academic with the creative and eschew the expectation that those attending a premier educational institution should simply join a premier professional...
...Each candidate is likely to seek different allies in order to forge a coalition. Mofaz would be expected to try to form a coalition with parties to the right. But that would not include the Likud party of Benyamin Netanyahu, the hawkish ex-premier who wants to hasten Kadima's demise because he thinks - and polls agree - that he would win a general election. Livni, by contrast, would tilt Kadima leftward, scooping up the far-left party Meretz and possibly an ultra-orthodox party, to gain a slim majority in the 120-seat Knesset...