Word: begining
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...wrong. I'm not a chauvinistic New Yorker. That Woody Allen superciliousness thing is old hat - and was wrong-headed to begin with. I despise the smugness of New Yorkers who think they live in the center of the universe, who think that all knowledge resides on this little island. New York is on the edge, not in the center; it's an anomaly, not the norm...
...Bush Challenge: To come up with ways of combating the Bin Laden threat that project toughness without succumbing to the temptation to grandstand. More important, to recognize that Bin Laden's influence is growing in an Arab political context where hostility to the U.S. is widespread, and to begin to address that political problem. The way to beat Bin Laden is to isolate him, which requires active support in the Arab world...
...begin talks with Baghdad in January. It will offer an agreement on terms for easing sanctions in return for a renewed arms inspection team. But Baghdad clearly believes it?s in a position to drive a hard bargain, since ending sanctions is the overriding concern of most of Washington's Gulf War allies. The Europeans aren't likely to let him off the hook, but the U.S. is finding its more hard-line position on sanctions a rather lonely one - and the worst-case scenario for Washington is that the sanctions regime simply collapses in the absence of agreement, which...
...Tuesday, Clinton sent Donna Shalala out to kill it. "Flaws and loopholes contained in the reimportation provision make it impossible for me to demonstrate that it is safe and cost effective," Shalala wrote. The program will not begin under the Clinton administration...
...growing chorus of economists think Greenspan's last half-point hike in May was overkill, and that the slowdown is indeed happening too fast. The markets are demanding a full point of interest rate cuts from the Fed chairman in the next six months, and many expect him to begin with a surprise, pre-FOMC-meeting cut in the next few weeks, coming perhaps as soon as the next unemployment figures, due out in early January. That would only help Bush set a properly gloomy mood...