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...leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres are scheduled to meet sometime this week, probably at the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza. And that prompted Palestinian militants at the weekend to repeat a familiar pattern of launching a frenzy of attacks as a form of "veto" over any new moves towards a cease-fire. Five Israelis were killed and 80 wounded in two separate suicide bombings and a drive-by shooting on Saturday, and Israel responded Sunday with missile strikes on Palestinian installations...
...first time since the 1920s, residents will vote directly for mayor, the result of a new city charter adopted in 1999. The next mayor will enjoy a legislative veto, a term of four years instead of two and appointment power over committee chairmen. "People are looking forward to having someone take charge," says George Bishop, a political-science professor at the University of Cincinnati. "But there's ambivalence about whether Luken should be that person...
...Democrats will be out to create another choice, not between pork and missile defense (in the budgetary sense, nobody?s for the other white meat) but between items on Bush?s list - say, missile defense and the tax cut - that, since they can no longer repeal with a veto in the White House, they can at least complain shrilly about. And of course both sides will be accusing the other?s lock-box-raiders of "neglecting our nation?s seniors." Which neither side is actually doing - Social Security payouts are safe for at least a decade...
Bowles chose to have repairs done at Evergreen in part because the 747 he bought was already stored there and needed work before it could fly. A conflict quickly emerged. Leigh Abbott, AFX's representative at Evergreen, says he was not allowed to veto work, change a work order or challenge the time and parts charges--standard industry practices. "It was unlike any facility I've ever been in," says Abbott, a former line mechanic. "I could see that work had not been done when Evergreen claimed it was. When I challenged them, it was as if I was wrong...
...Wednesday, with head-spinning speed, President Bush, who has repeatedly threatened to veto any legislation that didn't limit the right to sue, convinced Norwood to back off his hard line on the issue. Moments after a handshake in the Oval Office, the Representative was on national television, announcing the deal, and leaving many of his colleagues in the House and Senate totally bewildered...