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TIME: Yasser Arafat was a symbol for Palestinians around the world. Do you see yourself as a different kind of leader...
...long as Arafat was there he was an impediment to change,” Ross said. “Abu Mazen is someone who has always been against the violence...
While Ross expressed tempered optimism about the prospects for peace, he said that Abbas lacks the authority that Arafat alone could wield...
...region?s three-month period of calm Friday night by killing four Israelis and injuring 50 outside a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub. The bomber, a 21-year-old student from a village near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, was the first since the November death of Yasser Arafat; he hoped to destroy the tenuous trust that took root at a Feb. 8 peace summit in Egypt. To keep him from succeeding, Palestinian security forces - which in the last four years have done little or nothing to apprehend those involved in such strikes - reacted energetically. The Palestinian police arrested...
...should come as no great revelation that George W. Bush is a wantonly decisive President. He decides Ariel Sharon is good and Yasser Arafat is evil, even though seasoned diplomats tell him it is not wise to make such sweeping judgments. He decides that Social Security needs to be transformed and that private investment accounts are the way to do it, even though the experts say there is no great crisis and his way won't solve anything. He decides to invade Iraq, with minimal contingency planning. He decides to cut taxes drastically and then to spend an outlandish...