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...certain point the Security Zone ceased to be an asset militarily. It began to be a liability. We were in a vicious circle. When we had the upper hand, we said, "Why leave?" When the Hizballah had the upper hand, we said, "Oh, no, we will never sway under pressure." So I thought the only way to cut this Gordian knot is to set a target date [for withdrawal]. Once I set it, I said in advance, When it comes to the moment, Hizballah will try to intensify their attacks in order to prove, so to speak, that they pushed...
...point the security zone ceased to be an asset militarily. It began to be a liability. We were in a vicious circle. When we had the upper hand, we said, "What's burning? Why leave?" When the Hezbollah had the upper hand, we said, "Oh, no, we will never sway under pressure." So I thought the only way to cut this Gordian knot is to set a target date [for withdrawal]. Once I set it, I said in advance, when it comes to the moment, Hezbollah will try to intensify their attacks in order to prove, so to speak, that...
Clinton and DeLay's most powerful lobbyist is Big Business, which has marshaled an unparalleled effort to sway the vote. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has 200,000 dues-paying members, fields a team of high-powered lobbyists that operates out of a Washington "war room" where staff members work the phones, churn out faxes and position reports around the clock. "We're going to win this one because it's the most important vote for business in decades," says Chamber president Thomas Donahue...
Tales like that have begun to sway some policymakers. Last week the office of California Governor Gray Davis issued a report urging schools to proceed with caution on Mosaic, and other such programs. The U.S. Education Department is backing away from the checklist of warning signs it sent to every school in the nation in 1998. In a mass mailing this week, the department declares that relying on such lists can "harm children and waste resources." Instead, it counsels teachers and parents to use the much lower-tech and more labor-intensive approach of keeping their eyes and ears alert...
...McKnight's attempt at mixing his slow R&B up by changing into different form-fitting clothes seemed gratuitous at parts. Yet it is hard to blame him when the ladies in his audience demanded the sway of the hips here, the unbuttoning of the shirt there. Nevertheless, I got the feeling during the sagging conversational interludes that he wasn't particularly concerned about his dynamic sensual energy, but the love that each person found in his or her own lives. This was most exemplified by the startling gospel interlude, during which he preached about the amazing works of Jesus...