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...played out that scenario with about a dozen prominent Democrats recently, from various sectors of the party, including both Obama and Clinton partisans. Most said it was extremely unlikely ... and a pretty interesting idea. A prominent fund raiser told me, "Gore-Obama is the ticket a lot of people wanted in the first place." A congressional Democrat told me, "This could be our way out of a mess." Others suggested Gore was painfully aware of his limitations as a candidate. "I don't know that he'd be interested, even if you handed it to him," said a Gore friend...
...would have an opportunity to push their agendas with the world watching. "Though the specific trigger for this in Tibet is still unclear, that it intensified so quickly is probably not just an accident," the Western diplomat says. According to this view, it was never hard to imagine a scenario in which some group - and maybe several - would push things and try "to probe and see whether they could test limits...
...comfortable. "The best-case scenario is a mild recession and a slow recovery with mildly elevated inflation," says Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. "That's the best outcome we can hope for at this point." Rogoff is a co-author, with the University of Maryland's Carmen Reinhart, of a much discussed new paper that surveys the five worst rich-country financial crises since World War II, and he finds alarming parallels to the current U.S. situation. Those crises all brought economic downturns that, while much milder than the Great Depression, were...
...succeed in Iraq If we were to end this military involvement in a careful way, where we bring our troops out safely, that is the only scenario where the countries around that area will come together to try to provide stability. They will never do it in a situation where they perceive a non-Islamic occupation of Iraq. They can't do it. The regimes around there - Kuwait, Jordan, Iran, and Syria and others - can't afford to help in a situation where they're perceived as helping an illegitimate occupation...
...coping with the danger My main experiences walking around here is you act like you're in an episode of The Sopranos, that's sometimes how the rules are here. And if you imagine yourself in that [scenario], it becomes a lot easier to understand how things work here ... You know it's dangerous here, but you kind of take a dark sense of humor toward it, and just try to laugh off some things...