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...Bush came to his benevolent view of corporate America by way of Midland, Texas, where the young Harvard Business School graduate landed in 1975 hoping to strike it rich in the oil business. There, Bush recalls, businesses were filled with "good men" who would strike a deal on a handshake or the strength of a family name. When the oil boom went bust, as it did for Bush in the mid-1980s, small-business men didn't cash out their stock options and run; they took pay cuts and tried to help their employees. To Bush, Enron and WorldCom were...
...halting "martyrdom" operations was anathema to Shehade and other hard-liners in Gaza and the West Bank, and they were faced with making the case that their aims could only be achieved through violence. But any emerging debate on the question has been stifled by Tuesday's air strike that killed Shehade and 14 others. Until the Palestinian street has satisfied its demand for revenge, further talk of ending attacks on Israelis, by Hamas or any other Palestinian faction, is unlikely...
...Israel, the triumphalism that followed the air strike - Prime Minister Sharon called it one of Israel's "greatest successes" - quickly turned into a chorus of self-flagellation Wednesday in the face of fierce international criticism over the civilian casualties. Israel's President Moshe Katsav, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and a number of military officials described the decision to drop a one-ton bomb in densely populated Gaza as a mistake. The IDF and the Shin Bet security service even launched an inquiry into the "intelligence failure" that resulted in such high civilian casualties...
...Israel's beleaguered peace camp went even further, questioning the timing of the strike in light of the comparative calm of recent weeks and renewed diplomatic activity. The dovish Haaretz newspaper pointed to previous instances, such as the assassination earlier this year of Fatah Tanzim commander Raed Karni, which prompted a wave of Palestinian terror attacks in retaliation and ended a period of relative quiet. But it dismissed the charge that this was the result of a deliberate attempt to sabotage peace efforts...
...Still, the shock waves of the Gaza strike are likely to include renewed pressure on the Labor Party to quit Sharon's unity government. Although the leader of the Labor Party, Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, was involved in the decision to attack Shehade, his membership is growing restless. Dalia Rabin-Pelosoff, daughter of slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, quit her post as deputy defense minister Tuesday, saying she could not remain in a government that had abandoned her father's pursuit of peace...