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...continue to pay lip service to the Mitchell Report and the cease-fire brokered by CIA director George Tenet, but only in as much as such lip service is necessary to achieve their goals. Sharon plainly believes that military action to turn up the heat on the PA will succeed where negotiation has failed in putting an end to attacks on Israelis. And yet those attacks show no sign of abating, as Israel's every raid simply grows the pool of young Palestinians willing to volunteer as suicide bombers for Hamas or Islamic Jihad, while their terror strikes carry overwhelming...
...shadows around the family tree, the one cast by Joseph P. Kennedy is the most paradoxical. The son of an Irish saloon keeper, Joe was driven to succeed in Wasp America. He was a master of manipulation, in both business and public relations. "You would be surprised," he wrote to Jack, "how a book that really makes the grade with high-class people stands you in good stead for years to come." And so in 1940, Joe enlisted his friend Arthur Krock, a columnist for the New York Times, to edit Jack's senior thesis from Harvard into a book...
...Vanzant or Lewis to succeed, it will mean cutting into Oprah's lane on the high road or proving that viewers, contrary to their recent choices, really are tired of high-decibel escapism. Both are betting that talk, in Vanzant's phrase, has "got the power" to change lives. Now they have to sell that idea to viewers who've got the power to change the channel...
...Long Goodbye Defiant to the end, ousted leader Abdurrahman Wahid finally quit the presidential palace on Thursday, four days after the National Assembly voted him out of office on charges of corruption and incompetence. Once the Assembly removed Wahid as President, Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in to succeed him. The defeated Wahid still claimed he was the country's rightful leader, but, in a face-saving compromise, agreed to leave to seek treatment in the U.S. for high blood pressure...
...cameras focused on placards on the wall of the stadium: “We could handle the Cup, We will succeed with Peace...