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...Matt Rees: Certainly. One detail that will have a profound impact on the domestic political situation occurred even before the government was sworn in. Sharon pushed through a law to stop the practice of direct elections for prime minister. In the last two elections, Israelis had been able to vote separately for the party to represent them in parliament and for the candidate they wanted for prime minister. That had created tremendous political instability by fracturing the political landscape, because people could choose the party closest to their hearts rather than being forced to choose between the major parties...
...decree along with amendments to reduce the cap on renegotiated loans to just under 10% for most individuals and even lower for first-time home buyers. But that may not be enough. The Greens, part of the governing coalition, are still dead set against the decree and have sworn to vote against it in the Chamber of Deputies unless it is amended yet again. Their vote is unlikely to keep the compromise from passing, but the split will look bad for a center-left alliance that is trying to present a unified front in anticipation of the spring elections...
...weren't so sorry to see him go. Jimmy Carter returned to Plains, Ga., to nurse his wounds and work on his house; George Herbert Walker Bush disappeared to Houston, content to load his dishwasher and walk his dogs. But from the hour Bill Clinton's successor was sworn in, the youngest former President in modern history made it clear that he didn't intend to fade from view for even a minute. "I'm still here," he declared as the jet engines revved at Andrews Air Force Base. "We're not going anywhere." The almost spoken promise: Clinton would...
...Hillary Clinton is sworn into the Senate, which prohibits the receipt of any gift worth more than...
...least as it has been defined over the past eight years, and work to restore stability in a country whose nerves are dangerously frayed. Indeed, forming a unity government is clearly an attempt by Israel's two major parties to calm the panic in domestic politics (once Sharon is sworn in next week, the country will have had four prime ministers in five years) and act in their mutual interest to restore the traditional Labor-Likud duopoly of power...