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...Stable. Though he has stepped up restrictions on renovations, Sharon doesn't want to interfere, fearing a Muslim backlash. If the walls do collapse, Israeli officials worry they will be blamed, not the Waqf, which kept them out. That could lead to the very reprisals Sharon wants to avoid...
...want to turn Fallujah into a parking lot, but you can win the battle and lose the war." Hawkish critics immediately called the new softening a retreat. But it was only one of many examples of shifting tactics. Bush won't change his mind when the French want to avoid a war at all costs, but he is willing to change course if there's a smarter way to get where he wants to go. He still thinks international institutions like the U.N. are feckless and weak, but he now understands they have a role to play...
...KLEIN: How phony issues help Bush and Kerry avoid real ones...
After reading Klein's column, I'm left to wonder in what ethereal realm he is living! My Republican-backing brother and I haven't spoken in 11 years, and take special care to avoid being at the same family functions. Things got worse between us after Clinton's impeachment. Most other adults I know have experienced a similar politically engendered family separation. Klein's portrayal of a passive neutrality by the majority of Americans is a fiction in his own mind. It certainly doesn't jibe with the real, day-to-day America most of us experience. PHIL STAHL...
...Natasha Bedingfield's These Words, sold 41,000 copies.) "There's not much motivation to expand in a rush," says Sony Music Entertainment's Yasushi Ide, who cites ongoing worries about piracy, especially in Asia . "We'd rather grow the market gradually." Which may be the wisest way to avoid flying without wings - and crashing. - Reported by Yuki Oda/Tokyo and Bryan Walsh/Hong Kong Made To Be Broken The E.U. proposed relaxing its stability and growth pact by loosening the rule requiring states to keep budget deficits below 3% of GDP. The changes will benefit chronic overspenders such as France...