Word: dealing
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Barak and Arafat agreed. If a deal is going to be hatched, they know that Washington will have to broker it. And both men believe that Clinton is the best arbiter they've had in these talks. The incoming president - no matter if he's George W. Bush or Al Gore - are both unknown quantities and it will take them months to get up to speed on the Middle East. Fail to reach a treaty now, and the window will be closed for a long time...
...both men agreed to send their top negotiators to Washington this coming week, where they'll try to make headway on hammering out a framework for a peace deal. Barak and Arafat have set Sept. 13 as the deadline for having a final treaty with all the details filled in. Arafat also will fly to Washington on Wednesday for some cajoling by Clinton...
...deal be hatched before the Clinton administration turns out the lights? Arafat is under tremendous pressure from Palestinian hard-liners not to compromise and Barak is having to struggle just to hold together his unruly coalition government. Clinton stays publicly optimistic. But his top aides say privately that the odds are less than...
...upstart that wanted to turn the industry on its ear is now in bed with two of the industry's Big Five (the rest are expected to follow soon). The outlaw has been deputized. "Whenever the record industry sues someone, you know they're then going to make a deal," says TIME Digital writer Nathaniel Wice. "The defendants turn out to be the technology partners they need to participate in the inevitable, which is the digital delivery of music...
...More and more you're finding more people whose first language isn't English and that's just something we have to deal with," Lichten says...