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...business in the Balkans was finished (he's rumored to be leaving the State Department and returning to Wall Street later this month). But the arrangement was beginning to unravel, and the man who had knit it together in the first place was being summoned to perform some quick-stitch diplomacy...
...delicate tightrope act. "He finds himself in danger all the time," says Slavko Santic, vice president of the opposition group Circle 99. "He must balance between the extremist and democratic forces in his party." If he does not, it will take far more than Holbrooke's embroidery to stitch Bosnia back together again...
...candidates, it is Gramm who is in the best position to upset Dole in Iowa. Backed by a gritty local staff, the Texan is trying to stitch together a coalition of deficit hawks, gun owners, property-rights activists and abortion opponents to win at least 25% of the vote. He is also trying to appeal to newly registered Republicans who may be fed up with the slow pace of change in Washington. If he manages it, a mistake or two by Dole in the next few weeks could make it a race...
Live by the polls, die by the polls. The same surveys Luntz and Gingrich employed to stitch the contract together last summer are now compelling some Republicans to think about unraveling it. Nearly five months after the midterm election, Americans are worried more about reducing the deficit than reducing taxes, jeopardizing what Gingrich calls the "crowning jewels" in the contract. The popularity of spending cuts in general remains high, but the prospect of cutting school lunches and welfare benefits for indigent parents is distinctly less so--a harbinger of trouble when deeper and more specific cuts in middle-class programs...
...that have more status than others.'' In other words, the Net is pretty much more of the world we already know: a place both embracing and exclusionary, loving and hurtful. As happened with the telephone and automobile, technology lends to the fragmentation of people's lives and also helps stitch those fragments back together again. Most online veterans tend to agree that the challenge is to merge the connections made in cyberspace with real lives. ``We're not going to bridge anything simply by connecting,'' warns Jones. ``We can build all the bridges we want...