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...Annapolis summit was an echo of the elder Bush's 1991 Madrid Conference. Going in, the Israelis and Palestinians agreed to restart negotiations on the tough issues of dividing Jerusalem, establishing borders and providing for the return of Palestinian refugees. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pushed the Saudis and the Syrians to join the talks in a show of support for the weak Palestinian leadership. Still, the summit, which set the goal of creating a Palestinian state at peace with Israel by the end of 2008, was a risk. If talks fail, says George Salem, a co-founder...
...Washington, which sent a small number of U.S. Special Operations troops to accompany the invasion, was optimistic that the government the Ethiopians installed - the Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.) - would make progress towards national reconciliation. If that could be accomplished, the U.N. and other agencies might feel safe enough to restart the substantive humanitarian assistance Somalia required. International business, led by enterprising Chinese telecom investors, was even probing Somalia's financial prospects. Might Somalia, left to fester in bloody chaos for so long, finally be rejoining the world...
...reportedly invested $20 million in this building, why invest so much in the Japanese market when it is not performing so well? I think when the market is not good is the time when you have to do something, you have to push it and restart in a different way. The young Japanese consumer has a big appetite for fashion. They are more open and free to shop; it is not such an inhibiting activity here anymore. Even if they cannot afford to buy a designer dress, they will buy, for example, a smaller item...
...tournament last year. “I’m a little disappointed,” Kovacs said. “I made some mistakes on Saturday that were unforced errors.” These slip-ups included prematurely beginning a race, which caused Kovacs to have to restart. They also left him needing decisive victories on Sunday to overcome his opponents, which Kovacs was unable to do. “[I was] a little bit slower than the top two boats,” Kovacs said of his performance on Sunday. “I could hang with them...
According to Kovacs, hitting marks and being forced to restart races set the team back significantly...