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...stick? Well, there was no stick, and that, according to TIME Jerusalem correspondent Eric Silver, allowed Netanyahu to leave President Clinton all dressed up with nowhere to go Monday. Instead of hosting Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat at the White House, Clinton will be briefed by Madeleine Albright and Dennis Ross on their failure to get Israel to compromise...
...envoy Dennis Ross arrives in Israel Friday for talks on resolving the standoff. ?Netanyahu is looking for a way of placating the Americans short of the full 13 percent withdrawal from the West Bank,? says Silver. And with the administration -- Hillary exempted -- backing away from tough love by week?s end, Netanyahu believes he?s won this round. After all, an ultimatum that doesn?t carry any consequences simply isn?t an ultimatum...
...nation," asks one, "or just to improve himself?" He reminds them of another bigfoot Democrat who seemed to regard himself as better than the process--Mario Cuomo, the longtime New York Governor, now a lawyer in private practice. Plenty has changed since Cuomo's big moment: Paul Tsongas and Ross Perot have come and gone, and the political truth teller has become just another available package--one that journalists may like more than voters do. The public that twice elected Bill Clinton seems to favor politicians who revel in the game, and Bradley never has. He guards his privacy...
Marijuana is not a performance-inducing drug, according to the International Olympic Committee, but they?re going to ban it anyway. Stung by being forced to restore the gold medal to Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati, who had been disqualified at Nagano after testing positive for the substance, the IOC today announced plans to tighten up its testing regulations to include the ?social drug.? Prince Alexandre de Merode of the IOC medical commission said the danger with marijuana was that ?it can give you the impression that you are indestructible.? No word on the IOC?s attitude toward footwear commercials that...
...with incredible cliches. Each of the other characters represents a segment of society rather than a person. As the ship breaks apart and its passengers choose between life and death, Titanic achieves an epic grandeur that the film may not deserve. Overall, a pyrrhic victory for Cameron. --Jeremy J. Ross...