Word: retreater
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...Wednesday, Israel's outgoing prime minister, Ehud Barak, decided - once again - to retreat from political life. Barak, who first announced his intentions to abandon leadership of the Labor party on February 6, when he lost a landslide election to Ariel Sharon, had subsequently reconsidered when he was offered the job of minister of defense in a unity government under Sharon. In the end, he withdrew, leaving the defense post open to fellow Labor leader Shimon Peres...
DIED. GILBERT TRIGANO, 80, vacation visionary who steered Club Med from beachfront commune to worldwide, multimillion-dollar resort chain; in Paris. The child of Algerian Jews, Trigano fought against the Nazi occupation of France alongside Gerard Blitz, who would later found the trail-blazing retreat business. After the war, Trigano wrote for the communist newspaper L'Humanit? before starting his 30-year career as helmsman of the company that delivered mai tais and tropical sunsets to the world's middle class...
...weeks away is now on the back burner, and the new government's priority in negotiations with the Palestinians will be to achieve interim non-belligerency agreements - cease-fires, in a sense, rather than a peace treaty. For Barak to accept such dramatically truncated peace goals is a significant retreat, but then, having lost the election by 25 points, he has little room for maneuver. And besides, most commentators agree that the "imminent" final status agreement was always something of a myth in the cold light of day outside the negotiating chambers...
...rarely agree with their daughters on what that difference is. Mindful of her own teenage years, spent in halters and hot pants, Sandy Swenson struggles to find tasteful outfits that pass the cool bar for her daughter Kate, 14. But the Houston mother admits she prefers at times to retreat rather than fight over wardrobe. Shavetta McWhorter, a mother of two girls in Canton, Ga., takes a harder line. "I basically tell Asa, 12, 'You have two choices: you can dress like a young lady, or you can dress like a hoochie,'" she says, making clear that since she bankrolls...
...After spending one last weekend feeling out the Democrats - even popping in on House members on a Sunday retreat to field questions on his plan - George W. Bush is back on the stump, trying one last time to shake the Gore-fostered notion that his $1.6 trillion plan is a budget-busting, rich man's giveaway...