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...prepare for this difficult mission, Albright closeted herself with Middle East advisers for hours and carted home a foot-high stack of briefing books. Obsessed with understanding the personalities of foreign officials, she pored over intelligence reports on Arafat along with Netanyahu's book, A Place Among the Nations. Once on the ground, though, Albright will rely heavily on her patented blunt talk. She won't be as bare-knuckled with these sensitive rivals as she was during her visit to the Balkans last May when she repeatedly dressed down Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian strongman Franjo Tudjman...
...aides described to TIME as an "almost impossible mission" in the wake of last week's events. Well, the secretary of state's mission ? which she chose to accept ? was to spend ten hours a day in closed-door security briefings, cart home a foot-high stack of books on the region. Now she must fly to Israel, and shuttle back and forth between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Arafat in an attempt to cool the war of words that has exploded between the two. Monday's rounding up of Islamic militants by Palestinian security teams helps her; the fact...
...voting-age population has turned out for national legislative elections in the 1990s, putting the U.S. in 139th place among 163 countries surveyed by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. The top-ranked nation? Malta, with a turnout of 96.2%. Here's how some other democracies stack...
...breathing? Signifies Robert Stack on Unsolved Mysteries...
...passion for fairness" motivates him, that he wants to help other minorities succeed the way he has. One merit-based proposal that deserves his consideration would offer automatic U.C. admission to the top 4% of the graduating class from each California high school. Connerly fears that it would "stack the deck" in favor of inner-city schools; Californians deserve a more thoughtful response than that. At a TIME Forum in the state Capitol last month, he softened his opposition to outreach programs that send college faculty members into low-performing schools to tutor and train teachers. Though he once condemned...