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...President Bush appears to have fared somewhat better on the missile defense issue...
...same time, I think a lot of gay and lesbian couples are rediscovering family. Particularly among lesbian couples, there is a new fervor around adoption and kids (gay men too, but on a smaller scale). There's a new kind of desirability for children and for constructing a somewhat traditional mode of family...
...agreeing while challenging the plan's specifics, Arafat has created a huge headache for the Tenet. After all, he has two parties somewhat reluctantly accepting a deal and sure to offer radically different interpretations of its requirements. Its implementation will require an active, thankless and quite possibly even futile refereeing effort on the part of the U.S. - exactly the scenario the Bush administration had hoped to avoid when it came into office vowing not to repeat Bill Clinton's mistakes and insisting that the U.S. could not impose peace when the parties were unwilling. The Middle East is seldom that...
...each side had declared a unilateral cease-fire. The CIA director's mission has been to merge those into a signed agreement, which could stabilize the conflict, restore security cooperation and create a basis for further political talks. So far, he's managed to get the two sides to somewhat reluctantly agree with him. Getting them to agree with each other on cease-fire terms may yet take some doing...
...less than two years after she was hired from Vogue. Her attempts to bring a more youthful look and feel to the once aesthetically ascetic couture bible resulted in poor newsstand sales and her departure from the building to make way for GLENDA BAILEY, editor of Marie Claire, the somewhat less refined fashion magazine that has seen rising circulation since Bailey inherited the post in 1996 from BONNIE FULLER, who two weeks ago was asked to resign as editor of Glamour, where she spiced things up with more stories about sex but angered her bosses when she unsuccessfully tried...