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...From the bottom of our hearts, we are sorry." EHUD OLMERT, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, apologizing to Egypt after tank soldiers on the border in Gaza shot and killed three Egyptian policeman they mistook for Palestinian militants...
...demand keeps growing an average 7% a year, as it has since 1990, in less than 20 years the country will consume 21 million bbl. of oil a day, matching current U.S. consumption. "The world has the oil," says Chen Huai of China's Development Research Center, a think tank in Beijing run by China's Cabinet, "and China has the money." The question is, how much is China--and the world--willing to pay for it? --With reporting by Susan Jakes/Beijing
...that cited one of the two biggest foreign policy issues, Iraq and terrorism, was significantly higher--34%. And it turns out that a "moral value" is in the conscience of the beholder. In a poll due out this week from the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, 42% of respondents said the war in Iraq was the most important moral issue influencing their vote, compared with 13% who chose abortion and less than 10% who chose gay marriage...
...only after the elimination of the Affirmative Action Deanship in 2002 that the numbers began to tank. Even the creation of Divisional Deans in 2003 has done nothing thus far to alleviate the decline...
...Clintons' closest advisers predict she will run. They also say her husband is, if anything, more enthusiastic about the idea than she is. The first hint of her intentions may come Nov. 8, when she speaks to the board of the Brookings Institution, a leading Washington think tank. But her candidacy is not guaranteed. Clinton could face a formidable opponent when she comes up for re-election to the Senate in two years: both Governor George Pataki and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani are said to be considering a challenge. A loss would effectively terminate Clinton's presidential...