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...That last item may be difficult to achieve. "We probably will get the plane back," a senior Pentagon official says, "but only after the Chinese have wrung every drop of intelligence out of it." U.S. and Chinese officials will meet this week to trade demands for new rules in the reconnaissance game the U.S. has no intention of giving up. Administration sources were quick to say last week that it would be not a listening tour for the U.S. team but a chance to ask what the President called "tough questions...
Even in the stock market, if you have been investing for two years or longer, you're probably still ahead. The past year's declines have wrung many excesses out of the markets, and the shares of many solid companies are now available at bargain prices. So although there's danger dead ahead, there are also opportunities. Here are some ideas for dealing with both...
...they have often resorted to rage. Rock throwers in the street have a number of tactical attractions. In the asymmetric struggle with the mighty Israeli army, the Palestinians would appear the victims. That would galvanize sympathetic Arab and European pressure behind his cause. A judicious level of violence had wrung Israeli concessions before: the Jerusalem tunnel uprising in 1996 had forced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to follow through on a delayed territorial withdrawal. And it could serve as a safety vent for all that frustration long pent inside Palestinians...
...last Thursday, 18 young men and women stood chin to shoulder in a small office at George W. Bush's Austin headquarters. His policy shop was gathering for its second meeting of the day. The group looked wrung out--the men unshaven, the women a bit frazzled--and not just because they have been putting in 100-hr. weeks for most of the year. The last two of those weeks have seen Al Gore grab the lead from Bush in many national and statewide polls, in part because Gore has been taking the hatchet to Bush's policies--calling...
...workhorse mountain bikes had to pump the hardest. Most of our pedaling was on the broad asphalt shoulder of Montauk Highway, which parallels the coast as it runs through resort towns and lavish residential areas. Forsythia, lilac, horse chestnut, wisteria and dogwood splashed bright colors against the rain-wrung greenery, and sometimes the fragrance of roses and the briny freshness of beach air eclipsed the exhaust from passing cars. We caught glimpses of cormorants, egrets, red-winged blackbirds and gulls...