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...peace agreement with Israel, Abbas, one of the main Palestinian negotiators, objected to the presence of the Palestinian first lady, widely regarded within Arafat's circle as an interloper. If she was going, Abbas said, he was not. In the event, Suha stayed home and Abbas attended the Rose Garden ceremony with President Bill Clinton, but on the plane to Washington, according to two top officials of the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.), Arafat fumed all the way. The incident, says an Arafat aide, broke the three-decade bond between the Palestinian leader and his No. 2 at the P.L.O.; they...
...Abbas, secretary-general of its executive committee, became further strained. After a dispute that year about the terms of a second peace agreement, Abbas headed to his Qatar home, refused to talk to Arafat and didn't return to the West Bank for months. Tension between the two rose again this past year, say senior officials in the Fatah faction of the P.L.O. to which Abbas and Arafat belong. Abbas, they say, lost faith in Arafat when he didn't respond to Abbas' urgings to end the violence of the intifadeh. Abbas believes the uprising against Israel...
...reality, that has not been the case," says Martin Weiss, chairman of Weiss Ratings, an independent insurance-rating agency in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. In a study published this week, Weiss Ratings found that in states without caps on noneconomic damages, median annual premiums for standard medical-malpractice coverage rose 36% between 1991 and 2002. But in states with caps, premiums rose even more--48%. In the two groups of states, median 2002 premiums were about the same. Weiss found nine states with flat or declining premiums; two of them had caps, seven didn't. Weiss speculates that regulation...
...Lucky for Martha, there's another vilified damsel to provide guidance: Hillary. The two have a lot more in common than first-name recognition. Both rose to the top by dint of brains, resolve, and marriages that jump-started their careers - Martha's to the publisher of her first books, Hillary's to a governor-to-be. Both have had their financial transactions investigated by ambitious prosecutors. Both were humiliated by husbands who fell for younger women. Both are loved and hated for driving while blond...
...felt really bad for the guy,” Rose said. “He ended up having to just borrow someone else’s sword, and I think it really shook him up. But it was probably a mismatch to begin with...