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...reason--ironically enough, given the convener's hostility to big money in politics--might be cash. A third of the convention's tab will be picked up by organizations funded by George Soros, the international financier whose passion for ending the drug war has made him an all-purpose bogeyman for political establishmentarians everywhere. Other funding will come from foundations and individual donors across a narrow span of the political spectrum, from the center to the center left. "Transcending the old categories of left and right," after all, is a favorite rhetorical trope of liberals who are tired of being...
...just fine with the fiscal-discipline crowd on Capitol Hill. Notoriously tight-fisted when it comes to spending taxpayers' money abroad, some Republican legislators were apoplectic at the weekend when the Washington Post reported that both Israel and the Palestinians are expecting the U.S. to pick up the tab for peace, which could run well over $15 billion. That bill would cover the cost of redeploying and re-equipping the Israeli military to cope with new, substantially more vulnerable borders, as well as the cost of Israel's compensation to Palestinian refugees for property seized in 1948. Needless...
...beach club in Rabat to race jet skis with friends. In Marrakech he is spotted at restaurants in the Casbah or at the city's fabled La Mamounia Hotel, where he recently startled some Cabinet ministers accustomed to free meals by taking out his wallet and paying a lunch tab...
...Arafat remain unable to bridge the gulf on key issues such as land and Jerusalem - the White House won't want to see the Israeli side mired in a parochial domestic dispute. It must be tempting, at this stage, for Washington to simply offer to pick up the tab for the rabbis' school system...
Having felt the sting of its radiation as far away as France and Sweden, the West was more than happy to pick up the tab for taking Chernobyl offline in December. But the Ukrainian plant's sole surviving reactor is only one of many Soviet-era, RMBK-type reactors still operating throughout Central and Eastern Europe - and that's a problem that'll likely loom for decades. President Leonid Kuchma announced the plant's final closure Monday to coincide with President Clinton's visit to the Ukraine. Washington will provide some $78 million in aid to secure the reactor that...