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...really believe that when we get in that situation, we will succeed,” Murphy said. “But my goal is to try like hell not to let it come down to that...
George W. Bush announced Friday his choice to succeed Gen. Hugh Shelton as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, a man with the perfect resume to be the third leg of the Bush-Rumsfeld Pentagon triangle: Currently vice chairman. Former head of the Air Force's space command. Former commander of the Pacific Air Forces. And no less importantly (especially in the personal-chemistry Bush Administration), the Kansas City native is by all accounts a pretty likable guy. Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who was also in Crawford with Bush and Rumsfeld...
...violence. And on the Palestinian side, many of Arafat's top advisers have dismissed talking to Peres as a waste of time, pointing out that he has no mandate from Sharon and that with no new initiatives on the table there's no reason to believe this meeting will succeed where countless previous encounters between the two men have failed. And there's open hostility to new talks down on the streets, where recent opinion surveys found that two out of three Palestinians support suicide bombings against Israel, and where Arafat's own rank and file are engaged in grassroots...
...magic formula, and it has worked in the past. There is just one catch: the interest rates that really matter would have to decline for this formula to succeed. And as anyone looking for a mortgage will tell you, that hasn't happened. We're talking about two rates here. The first is the Treasury's 10-year bond, which is the instrument that dictates mortgage rates. Even after a tumble last week, the yield on the T bond was at 4.99%, vs. 4.91% at the start of the year; 30-year fixed-rate mortgages average 7.16%, higher than...
...media. Gorbachev's performance that January sealed his fate. Instead of investigating the attack, dismissing and punishing top commanders, he buried his head in the sand. The KGB, the military and the party leaders did not miss the message: Try a power play and you will not be punished. Succeed and he may back...