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Next week, when 159 heads of state convene in New York City for the U.N. Millennium Summit--the largest such gathering ever (and doubtless a traffic nightmare that the city will not forget soon)--Annan will press this idea further. In the past few years, he has been refining a policy that calls on the states of the world to step in wherever and whenever human lives are being consumed in conflagrations of hate, disease or poverty. He has not always succeeded. On his watch, in places like Rwanda and Bosnia, he has seen thousands die as they awaited help...
...unilaterally declare a Palestinian state on Sept. 13. He'd threatened to do it by that date if he didn't have a peace agreement with Israel. But Arafat's three-week world tour of the Middle East, Europe and Asia, which he began after the Camp David summit collapsed last month, hasn't been a fun trip. At each stop, foreign leaders have warned him not to count on their support if he declares statehood on his own. Behind the scenes, U.S. diplomats have been conferring with the governments on Arafat's itinerary, pleading with them to discourage...
...message" that pre-empting a final agreement with Israel would backfire on him, says a senior White House aide, so he's looking for a way to sidestep the Sept. 13 deadline. Meanwhile, Mideast envoy Dennis Ross has flown to the region to gauge prospects for a second U.S. summit with Arafat and Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. Both men have been hinting lately that they want round...
...incredibly, Woods was going to risk it all by overhauling the swing that had brought him to this summit. He told his coach he wanted to make serious changes in the way he struck the ball. The history of such efforts is not auspicious. Some fine golfers--Ian Baker-Finch, Seve Ballesteros, Chip Beck--have revamped their swing and never returned to their earlier glory. What was Woods thinking...
...falling in love b) "Daniel-san" in Karate Kid IX: Russian Roulette c) taking in local sights after the G-8 summit in Japan d) regretting promise to crack down on the Russian...