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...decision not to run, Gore says, took shape over many weeks and months, taking into account several factors, not the least of which was the last campaign's toll on his personal life. Then there were the political considerations: many, including Gore himself, insist the only way the Democrats - and the rest of the country - can escape the memory of the 2000 election is by crafting an entirely fresh ticket. And there are Democrats to whom the idea of bringing Gore back for another round was tantamount to surrender to a Bush reelection drive...
...While most of the Security Council may be unlikely to endorse a war as long as Saddam continues to cooperate with inspections and meets specific demands from UNMOVIC, a war is taking shape nonetheless. But it's not only the international community that has qualms. Opinion polls in the U.S. find a strong preference among a majority of the electorate for any attack on Iraq to be authorized by the international community. Two thirds of respondents in a Los Angeles poll published on Sunday seemed to be closer to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan than to President Bush in maintaining...
Warren Schmidt moves ponderously. This is not because Jack Nicholson, who plays him to perfection, is particularly weighty or out of shape for a 66-year-old man. What slows him is the rhythms of his region and his culture; he is a Midwesterner of the Wasp persuasion, which means he is solid, stolid and silent, except when exchanging arm's-length pleasantries with his friends. Like so many men of his class and place, he has bent himself to a job (as an insurance company actuary) that is at once dull and intricate and to a city (Omaha...
Whatever the final shape of the package, the White House is looking to put together a new team that is camera ready. O'Neill and Lindsey not only were unskilled at presenting the President's plan but often made news with wayward public comments. Lindsey once called the Enron debacle a "tribute to American capitalism." He speculated on the cost of going into battle with Iraq when the rest of the Administration was downplaying war talk and the President was preaching fiscal discipline. O'Neill repeatedly made pronouncements that were far too candid for the markets' delicate constitution...
...Congressmen are calling for America to share costs for the resettlement of refugees with South Korea, Russia, China and other Asian countries, which might make the tactic more palatable to the mainland. But diplomats say by approving Brownback's visit, Beijing may merely be warning North Korea to shape up or risk losing its support...