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Arafat finally agreed. Back in the conference room, he and Albright slumped into chairs. Barak and CIA Director George Tenet were there waiting. Tenet passed around spy-satellite photos from the areas with some of the worst fighting and showed how both sides could retreat from the flash points...
...Cullinane, an account manager from West Bridgewater, Mass., spent last Christmas at Ridgeline in a family party that comprised eight adults and 12 children. Cullinane and his siblings felt they were drifting apart after the death of their parents, so they decided "to find a retreat where we could get to know one another again--to bond and bring the family back." Says Cullinane: "The cabin did just that...
...State Department news conference, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said the United states would not "retreat from our responsibilities" in the region...
...miles west of St. Louis, Mo., lawyer Samuel Dickey built his dream house in 1906. But 85 years later, the Greek Revival mansion in Marshfield, Mo., was about to be condemned when Michaelene and Larry Stevens bought it. Restored to its previous grandeur, Dickey House is now a retreat where guests can eat pumpkin pancakes with cider syrup and watch doves fly about a private aviary...
...sparked a region-wide fire that could torch much of the progress all sides have made thus far. The current violence illustrates just how untenable the deal on Jerusalem offered by Israel at Camp David would be for Palestinians, and yet Barak will likely be forced now to retreat from even that offer...