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...have recently visited the White House touting a peace plan in which both Israelis and Palestinians refrain from violence and respect existing agreements, eventually returning to the negotiating table to seek a comprehensive agreement. The subtext of their proposal appears to be that they'd lean on Arafat to rein in the militants if Washington can get Israel to exercise restraint. And Israel's speedy reaction to Washington's statement on Tuesday is likely to amplify Arab calls for the U.S. to take a more active role in refereeing the conflict...
...Whether or not it's sustainable or prudent, Sharon's vision of a violent equilibrium certainly makes sense of Israel's military strategy of escalating attacks on the Palestinians and the Syrians in order to force them to rein in militants operating from areas under their control. After all, unlike Barak, he's not looking at the Syrians or the Palestinians first and foremost as negotiating partners right...
...network movies to score big ratings. "The old form of movie-of-the-week isn't appealing to audiences anymore," says ABC executive vice president Susan Lyne. "The quality of cable movies has been a wake-up call." Anderson says network "cable envy" helped give her free rein--within language and time limits--to create Billie in her own style...
...Despite Israel's tough talk and actions, though, Damascus is unlikely to rein in Hezbollah. Syria's position has always been that it would ensure Israeli security in Lebanon only as part of a comprehensive peace plan that included Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in 1967. Negotiations to that end were begun by the late Yitzhak Rabin, more tentatively pursued through back channels by Benjamin Netanyahu and taken almost to the point of conclusion by Ehud Barak. But Sharon made clear in an interview published over the weekend that he believes Israeli withdrawal from the Golan...
...work of the provost's office, however, has had the unfortunate side effect of exacerbating the already tense relations between the central administration and the separate schools. Fineberg's attempts to rein in the various fiefdoms that make up the University has won him some resentment as well as praise...