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...wanted to show more flexibility early, on the theory that it might help soften up the opposition. A few days after the election Raines even went so far as to approach G.O.P. strategist Ken Duberstein and House Speaker Newt Gingrich with the idea of writing a budget together--a prospect the Republicans found laughable after fighting a bruising campaign over that very issue. "I don't think it was being naive," Raines contends. "I think it was setting a tone...
...seems primed for a big battle. "Sheraton would rather take over Hilton than be taken over by it," says Morris Lasky, ceo of Lodging Unlimited, a hotel-management and consulting firm. Lasky likened Hilton and ITT to "two titans that will go nose to nose." Just the prospect of such a fight sent ITT stock up a whopping $14.75 a share, to $58.50, the day Hilton launched its offer. (ITT shares closed Friday at $57.25, while Hilton stock ended at $28.50, up $2.75 for the week.) "The best thing for shareholders," Hanson says, "is that a deal doesn't happen...
...Boston Globe described his satirical yarn of a young African-American journalist (not unlike Farley) laboring for a national publication (not unlike USA Today, his previous employer) in Washington during the Gulf War. Now HBO has optioned My Favorite War for a made-for-cable movie, a prospect that can make even a veteran critic a bit starstruck. In Farley's dream cast, his part is played by Will Smith (Independence Day). "But with my luck," says Farley, "I'll get Dom DeLuise...
...security. The Lebanese government is neither capable nor willing to curb militias such as Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad or Amal. Likewise, Syria, whose military occupies much of Lebanon and pulls the strings of the Lebanese marionette government, has no interest in guaranteeing Israel's security. For Syria, the prospect of peace in Lebanon is a bargaining chip to be used in negotiations regarding the Golan Heights. Without the security zone, major cities in the north of Israel, such as Haifa and Safed, would be in range of rockets fired from Lebanon...
French president Jacques Chirac is fond of certain things American: junk food, his summer-school days at Harvard, the South Carolina belle he almost married, Bill Clinton. Campaigning in the spring of 1995, Chirac enthused about the prospect of working with his U.S. counterpart; the two men, both gregarious, backslapping extroverts, had hit it off from their first meeting in Paris a year earlier. But how, a reporter asked, would sensitive Franco-American relations fare? "They will be excellent," Chirac predicted. Pause. "And contentious...