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...Barak are simply not yet ready to conclude a workable peace, which leaves the Bush administration facing the headache of fashioning a new policy towards the conflict. President-elect Bush said Tuesday that his predecessor was "giving it his best shot?and I certainly hope it works." Indeed, the thankless task of Mideast peacemaking may be one bit of the presidency Bush would happily have left to the Democrats...
This year, it is a pleasure to endorse a candidate for the Undergraduate Council presidency without reservation. Leading a cash-strapped student government that few of its constituents fully appreciate is a thankless task. But we are convinced that Paul A. Gusmorino III '02, who has worked tirelessly for the student interest in his five terms on the council, is the right man for the job. Gusmorino is by far the most qualified and talented candidate in a strong field, and we believe that he will lift the council out of the aimless and ineffectual mire it has slipped into...
...want to be George Mitchell? Having spent the best part of half a decade patiently cobbling together a Northern Ireland peace treaty that has never moved far from the verge of collapse, he now has the thankless task of picking up the pieces of the failed Middle East peace process. The former U.S. senator is heading a commission of European heavyweights charged with investigating the root causes of the current violence in the West Bank and Gaza, and recommending remedies. The urgency, and complexity, of their task was underlined Wednesday when four Palestinian policemen died in a predawn shootout with...
...skilled as any actor comes-his ability to balance dramatic range with sheer physicality is virtually unmatched and his screen presence here is utterly commanding. But in the end, the greatest accomplishment may belong to Morse, the veteran character actor and former St. Elsewhere stalwart, who takes a potentially thankless role and goes through a De Niroesque transformation to lend the character of Bowman atragic eloquence...
Small wonder rumors surfaced that Gephardt would give up the minority leader's thankless job. Maybe he could better push his pet issues as a backbencher. Maybe, if Bush won, he could start spending lots of time in Iowa, where he won the presidential caucuses in 1988, in preparation for another White House bid in 2004. But the day after the election, Gephardt confirmed he would seek the leader's post again and, after months of being a bulldog, started acting like a leader. He telephoned Speaker Dennis Hastert, with whom he had scarcely talked since the two fought early...