Word: withdrawnness
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...influential black minister and former Congressman. "I think people would feel targeted," he warns. Opponents will no doubt cast Bloomberg (who once said his hobbies were "theater, dining and chasing women") as a Lothario, noting that three sexual-harassment suits have been filed against him--one dismissed, one withdrawn, one settled. "God as my witness, I can look my daughters in the eye and say I did nothing wrong," he says...
...intuited this. He has deliberately turned the White House into the Castle of Keck. That's his game. Whether he turns out to be a good president or a bad president, or both, like his father (the answer will not be known for some time), he has instinctively withdrawn the presidency, by degrees, from the gush of the Oprah business. It's shrewd to have done so. He is working his agenda. He has almost no time. If he loses Senate in 2002, he's a dead duck...
...Israelis' prime concern is halting the violence, Arafat's priority remains the "final status" negotiations over Palestinian statehood, Jerusalem, refugees and other hot-button issues that collapsed at Camp David. But both Sharon and Peres have made abundantly clear that the offers Israel made last year have been withdrawn, and despite the cease-fire proposal's suggestion that negotiations resume where they left off last year, Israel has no interest right now in even discussing the final status issues left unresolved by Oslo. "There is today no solution to these problems that would be acceptable to both sides," Peres told...
...opposition leaders, met the head of the main rebel group Jean-Pierre Bemba to discuss a possible alliance. "The weight of Congo is too much for him. Politics needs strategy, and all he's got is foreign backing." Kabila says he will hold elections once the "foreign aggressors" have withdrawn and dismisses talk of foreign influence on the government. "The Congolese people understand. There is a government, I am the President of this country and we are in charge of whatever is going on in the Congo," he says firmly. "Since I came into office, I've never taken orders...
...Harvard student could therefore continue to receive institutional aid even if federal aid were withdrawn...