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Arafat angrily turned down the U.S. plan, demanding full sovereignty over all of East Jerusalem. At 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, Clinton sent Tenet to Arafat's cabin to see if he could soften him up (the two bonded at previous summits). Tenet came back half an hour later. "It's ugly down there," he told Clinton. Arafat wouldn't budge...
...soften her up, Barak wowed Albright with an elaborate Japanese-themed dinner at the prime minister's residence and Arafat stuffed her with a lamb-and-fish lunch at his Ramallah office. But Albright still delivered a tough message. Time is running out with this administration. Both men have to accept the fact that ?neither side can get a hundred percent of what it wants,? she said. ?The tough decisions that must be made won't become any easier? the longer the two of them dither...
They probably sold the idea with the pitch meeting's first phrase: "Jackie Chan in the Old West." Surely the deal was sealed when they mentioned his character's name: Chon Wang. It may be, as someone in the film says, a terrible name for a cowboy, but soften that g, and it sounds a lot like that of a certain massive movie star who won immortality playing Western heroes...
Manuel's words, at least early in the week, seemed to soften Lazaro's stance, but it was New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli, whose state is home to the second largest Cuban-American community, who tried to broker a graceful exit strategy. Tracking down Juan Miguel's lawyer, Gregory Craig, Torricelli found him in Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder's office--along with Reno. Torricelli said the Miami wing continued to insist that if Juan Miguel wanted Elian, he would have to go to Miami to get him. It was a dare and a test. They knew...
...common nowadays for a celebrity to come out and proclaim how much of a geek they were in high school. Is it just a trend to soften celebrity, or massive karmic retribution for the popular kids...