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...countries boast an electorate as passionately political and committed to their views as Israel's. Most voters knew long before the campaign where they stood on the peace process, on Labor's path vs. Likud's. The election turned not on some seismic slide from left to right but on the choices made by the 6% to 7% of perennially undecided, known as the floating vote, who are swayed more by emotion than ideology. Netanyahu won because he better captured their cautious mood after the suicide-bomb slaughter of 59 men, women and children in a shattering Hamas rampage over...
With the announcement last week that Liggett, the smallest of the nation's five major cigarette makers, had agreed to settle the Castano class action in Louisiana on behalf of all smokers and five state Medicaid suits against cigarette makers, the landscape of tobacco litigation underwent a seismic shift. In real dollars, the terms of the agreement--Liggett will wind up paying less than $2 million a year over the next 25 years toward antismoking programs, and will comply with proposed Food and Drug Administration rules about marketing to children--have little bite. Any capitulation, however, marks a drastic change...
...YEARS AFTER HE DIScovered the problems with Millstone's cooling system, Galatis reported the matter to the NRC. He spoke to a "senior allegations coordinator," waited months, then refiled his charges in a letter describing 16 problems, including the cooling system, the pipes that couldn't withstand seismic shock, the corporate culture. "At Northeast, people are the biggest safety problem," Galatis says. "Not the guys in the engine room. The guys who drive the boat...
...notable as the program's success is the fact that two pro-lifers, the Bennetts, and two pro-choicers, the Powells, have found common ground at a time when any deviance from abortion orthodoxy creates seismic splits in the Republican Party. For his moderation--opposing a human-life amendment and distinguishing between early abortions and those post-viability, which he would restrict--Bennett has been labeled "pro-abortion" by Dr. James Dobson of the Focus on the Family. General Powell's revelation that he was pro-choice made him anathema to his party's right wing. In December, when Senator...
...countries first exchanged ambassadors. Relations never fully recovered from the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, and have been battered by tussles over human rights, weapons sales, nuclear proliferation, Tibet, copyright violations and China's failed bid to join the World Trade Organization, which the U.S. opposed. On May 22 came a seismic jolt: the Clinton Administration gave permission to Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to visit his American alma mater, Cornell University. China was stunned. The U.S. does not recognize Taiwan as an independent country, and the Chinese perceived the O.K. for Lee's visit as a step in that direction...