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...Matt Rees: This is just another point on an extended Barak timeline. On February 6, right at the end of a rather long-winded concession speech, Barak said, more or less: "By the way, I intend to resign from the Labor party and the Knesset and take a break from political life." But by the end of that week, he was conducting unity government talks with Sharon. As a result of those talks, Barak was to be defense minister and Peres was to become foreign minister...
...least one guaranteed to keep some of the Clintons' friends in the hot seat. She has raised millions for the Democrats and contributed thousands to Clinton's personal projects. Last month the President reportedly returned the favor by allowing her husband, managed-care magnate Ronald Dozoretz, to resign from the prestigious Kennedy Center board before his term expired so Clinton could reappoint him to a new six-year stint...
...Aviv, Barak's U.S. campaign consultants, Robert Shrum and Stanley Greenberg, monitored exit polls throughout election day. By 9 p.m., the dimensions of Barak's loss were clear. Campaign managers Tal Silberstein and Moshe Gaon came to Greenberg's hotel room overlooking the Mediterranean. "Ehud's going to resign," Silberstein said...
...tenacity, like a good soldier," Sharon said. "We have great things to do and can only do them together." It was an overt appeal that Barak bring his Labor Party into a ruling coalition with Sharon. But Barak wasn't playing. An hour later he announced that he would resign the leadership of the Labor Party and quit Parliament...
Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma has been in deep trouble ever since his opposition released tapes purporting to be recordings of the president ordering his interior minister to "get rid" of a critical journalist whose decapitated body was discovered late last year. As pressure mounts on Kuchma to resign, he met Monday with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Given Kuchma's flirtation with NATO in recent years, Putin's got to be loving this scandal...