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...Warnings by even its most amenable Arab allies against attacking Iraq while the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains on the boil may be prompting the Bush administration to avoid allowing its own desire to be rid of Arafat become an obstacle to progress. But the fact that a figure as influential as Rumsfeld was willing to go on record so strongly at odds with administration policy over Israeli settlements in the occupied territories - and even the very designation of those territories as occupied - suggests that the administration's Middle East policy is likely to remain a cacophony of divergent voices, thereby...
...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 a potentially bloody confrontation on the streets. The two Palestinian groups have been negotiating over such an agreement for some time, although the talks were suspended following Israel's assassination of a key Hamas military leader in Gaza City two weeks ago. For Hamas, of course, a cease-fire would...
...that the "real economy" stays stable and the markets settle down. More made-for-TV indictments are likely this week, which will help too. But just in case, one topic slated for discussion at the Waco forum is--as White House communications director Dan Bartlett puts it--"ways to avoid a double-dip recession." And as some economists point out, on a graph, a double-dip recession looks like...
...criticize the kingdom's religious establishment. "If I publish anything, I'll get kicked out of a job," he says. "And yet they allow the extremists to get away with anything they want." The U.S. has provided little support to those moderate voices inside Saudi Arabia, largely to avoid doing anything that would undermine the regime and disrupt the world's energy market. But that's no longer good enough. As Sept. 11 showed, the security of the U.S. depends on more than cheap...
...good start would be to put some of the $1.6 billion of federal dollars into improving the pool of housing available for voucher families and develop ways to place tenants around the city anonymously so they can avoid the stigma of coming from the projects. The CHA has come quite a long way, but there is still much work to be done, not so much with the poor but in the hearts and minds of their prospective neighbors...