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This was, after all, a White House plan, which means it was resented from the moment of conception. "When you look at the Pentagon and the CIA," says a former senior Clinton aide, "it's not their plan. The military will never accept the White House staff doing military planning." Terrorism, officials from the State Department suggested, needed to be put in the broader context of American policy in South Asia. The rollback plan was becoming the victim of a classic Washington power play between those with "functional" responsibilities--like terrorism--and those with "regional" ones--like relations with India...
...plan raises divisions aplenty on the Palestinian side, too. Those under curfew in the West Bank cities will see little to cheer in a "Gaza-first" cease-fire, and even Arafat's own cabinet was divided over whether to accept Ben Eliezer's offer. Gaza is a stronghold of Hamas, whose political standing continues to grow at the expense of Arafat's own Fatah movement. The PA's approach to implementing a cease-fire there may depend, in large part, on securing Hamas's agreement to such a step, on the basis that both sides would prefer to avoid...
...with Bush more than 12 times this year, is expected in Washington this week for more meetings. A top defense official told Time last week that none of the many scenarios leaked to the newspapers will resemble the plan eventually presented to Bush: "People don't want to accept this, but everything about it is going to be different. It won't be like Afghanistan, and it won't be like the Persian Gulf...
Still, anyone who has experienced a frothy market like San Francisco may find the fair-value argument difficult to accept. That's because in the past few years the hottest markets have been rebounding from declines in the early 1990s. Measuring from trough to peak will always show unsustainable growth. A better snapshot comes from measuring from peak to peak. Take San Francisco again. The median home price has surged to $482,000 as of the first quarter of this year, from $254,000 in 1995. That's an 11.3% average annual return, double the historical national average...
...others, including the Commission's current President Romano Prodi, fear it would be impossible for any candidate to run an effective E.U.-wide campaign. "Elections for a President would definitely increase the legitimacy of the Commission,'' says Crossick. "National governments are attacked all the time for mismanagement, and people accept it. But Brussels is seen as a foreign land. It is therefore an inviting target. That would change if there were elections.'' Well, more democracy might dampen some of the criticism, but as long as the Commission continues to make decisions that affect the lives of millions, Brussels will remain...