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...alliance in Hollywood: the military-entertainment complex. The networks need a new twist on reality TV, the genre that has cooled since 9/11--or perhaps, in part, because of it. The Pentagon has a p.r. issue: How do you maintain public interest in a war that could stay on simmer--an air strike here, a wiretap there--for years...
...full authority of a king to act. Fears of a power struggle in the royal family have proved unfounded, with Abdullah serving as day-to-day ruler with the consensus of other powerful princes. Insiders say that tensions on issues like the pace of reform and cleaning up corruption simmer between Abdullah and other ranking princes, notably influential Defense Minister Prince Sultan, the next in line to the throne after Abdullah. "The Crown Prince is in an unenviable position," says a prominent Jidda businessman close to royal circles. "He is in power, but he doesn't have all the power...
...them, Bush was blunt. He reminded the audience what had been found in the smoked-out holes of Afghanistan - blueprints of U.S. nuclear plants, surveillance maps of major cities, instructions on chemical-weapon manufacture. He pointed to the harboring nations, the future hotspots that the Pentagon already has on simmer - the Phillipines. Bosnia. Somalia. Iran. Iraq. And he pointed to the "tens of thousands of killers, schooled in the methods of murder" are still out there, and still intent on bringing the U.S. to its knees. The terrorists not yet killed, not yet captured, Bush warned, were like "ticking time...
...gloomy? What about America and the Unmovable Middle? Now that most of the divisive national issues have been cooled and moderated, maybe we're stuck in dead center. America, the Stuck-in-the-Mud--which soon elides to America Too Careful By Half. Passions simmer down to casual wishes. The Taming of America...
...Both sides, then, may be more inclined to allow the conflict to simmer, in the hope that the process of attrition will wear down the other side. But that doesn't work for Israel's moderate Arab neighbors, for whom the ongoing intifada poses a domestic political crisis, nor for Washington, whose overriding concern is regional stability. And that may be what brought Peres to Washington this week. But while his discussions in Washington were over cease-fire terms - on the ground in Israel and in the West Bank and Gaza - nobody, right now, is talking seriously about peace...