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...these guerrillas has been Syria's most effective means of compelling Israel to return the Golan Heights. Barak's repeated commitment to withdraw his troops by July 2000 threatened to deprive Syria of its most powerful point of leverage. Under pressure to act while he still possessed his Lebanon trump card, Assad has opted to cut a deal...

Author: By David P. Honig, | Title: Paradoxical Peace in the Middle East | 1/10/2000 | See Source »

...wants to have a national influence, although he vows not to run for President next year: "I have no desire for that job." Ventura would like to see a Reform Party movement; he'd like his party to consider other presidential candidates in addition to Pat Buchanan and Donald Trump. But the more he speaks about anything but governing Minnesota, the more he risks seeming distracted. "His strength is that people think he's fighting for them," says a Democratic pollster. "If they ever think it's about him, he's dead." That day hasn't come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Ventura: Keeping His Eye on The Ball | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...movement of Syrian military hardware into that zone as an act of war may be acceptable to Israel's generals. Of course, many Israelis are loath to trust their Arab neighbors, and would just as soon hang on to all the real estate they can. But Barak holds a trump card: Israel continues to pay a heavy price in human life for its occupation of southern Lebanon, and the call for Israeli withdrawal is overwhelmingly popular across party lines. But the only way out is a deal in which Israel's borders are protected from attack by Hezbollah guerrillas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Israel Is Willing to Hand Back the Golan | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...Most of the articles that mention Donald Trump's girlfriend Melania Knauss refer to her as a supermodel. I've never heard of her. Is she really a supermodel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask Dr. Notebook | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Lance Morrow in his piece on handshakes, "Pressing the Germy Flesh" [ESSAY, Nov. 8], refers to Donald Trump's well-known aversion to shaking hands. I wonder, Did the Donald learn his obsession with having clean hands from Howard Hughes? Two of a kind! DAVID E. RUSSELL Jacksonville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 29, 1999 | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

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