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Sharon began to gear up an image as a man committed to a workable peace deal. There was a second front to the campaign: Sharon had to beat off a possible resurrection of Netanyahu, who was itching to return to politics after being cleared of corruption charges. That two-front struggle was captured in the most famous walk Sharon will probably ever make--his tour of the Temple Mount at the end of September. It was a maneuver designed to take the hard-line limelight from Netanyahu by asserting Israeli sovereignty over a site that is also claimed by Arafat...
Bush, once the lone front runner, is now in a two-front war. He must appeal to home-schooling Evangelicals in Waterloo, Iowa, even as he reaches out to socially moderate soccer moms in Nashua, N.H. He must halt McCain's surge in New Hampshire, but he cannot take victory for granted in Iowa, where being organized counts for more on caucus night than doing well in early polls, and where Forbes is dumping huge sums of money into the most sophisticated campaign organization in state history. "No question," says Iowa G.O.P. chairman Kayne Robinson, "Forbes is going to turn...
...two sides were engaged in a p.r. struggle over its timing. Justice would have been happy to play the tape at the end of the previous week, when the TV feed would have been fodder for a weekend's worth of chat shows. But Microsoft lawyer John Warden's cross-examination of Colburn proceeded so glacially--sample topic: What is e-mail, Mr. Colburn?--that the video was bumped to the following Monday. Microsoft couldn't have been unhappy that Gates got lost in the clutter of last week's national election-eve coverage. "It's a two-front...
...leak also provided another pretext for invoking executive privilege. You can hear the arguments already. Why let Clinton consigliere Bruce Lindsey testify if Starr is going to leak it? And here lies perhaps a most important motivation: slowing Starr's progress on Monica. The White House is fighting a two-front war. The first battle is the Jones trial: if Clinton prevails there, and his lawyers are confident that he will, he has a stronger case for defending himself against Starr. A victory over Jones would boost Clinton's image as the beleaguered victim and trivialize Starr's whole obstruction...
...Carey, a former UPS driver, the strike by 185,000 Teamsters over issues ranging from the company's pension plan to part-time workers represents a desperate two-front battle. He sorely needs a big win to maintain his political advantage over archrival James Hoffa Jr., son of the notorious Teamster boss who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1975. Carey edged Hoffa in the race for the presidency last fall, but Hoffa has jumped on the fund-raising charges to demand a new election. "If Carey loses the strike or is perceived to have lost, his position...