Word: dealing
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Unfortunately, the deal-breakers squaring off on opposite sides of the North Atlantic are among the least affected by the possibility of rising temperatures and swelling seas. According to projections by the United Nations, Bangladesh could lose up to 16 percent of its land area to the Indian Ocean. Semi-arid parts of North Africa and Southern Europe could become deserts. But agriculture in Northern Europe and the North Great Plains would most likely boom in the event of warming--a longer growing season coupled with easier shopping due to less ice in the Great Lakes means the northern latitudes...
...should be safe even in the worst-case scenario of a three-foot rise in water level over the next hundred years. Cambridge would also survive such a rise. In the meantime, I hope the U.S. and E.U. can come to some understanding about the need for a meaningful deal. This is the world we're talking about here, and it wouldn't be fair to future generations of Harvard students if rising waters forced Eliot House and Winthrop House to relocate to the Quad...
...opposition Shas Party gave Prime Minister Ehud Barak a one-month "umbrella" of political support, a temporary reprieve from domestic political pressure. But next week that umbrella is set to close, and Barak must figure out how to hold his government together. He has two choices: cut a deal with the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party or swallow hard and hold hands with Sharon. It will very probably be Sharon's last bid for power--the final attempt of a legendary general to grab his country's highest office. If his sheep are scared, they have reason. Sharon has shown...
...mildly says his version would continue "down a different line from all those leftists who never saw the horrors of real war like I did." In practice, that would mean pressing Arafat much harder--particularly on the issue of controlling extremists such as Hamas--before agreeing to any deal. But a deal, Sharon insists, would still be part of his plan...
...minority government. But Sharon set out to exact a high price, demanding a veto over peace-process issues. Barak's team wavered. Two weeks ago, Sharon's chief negotiator, Likud legislator Meir Sheetrit, demanded a decision. "Let's cut the bulls___," he remembers saying. "I want to do a deal on the veto item." Barak wasn't playing. The next day the Prime Minister moved to cut the ground out from under Sharon, appearing on television to deny that he'd given Sharon a veto. And in a one-two punch, the Prime Minister blindsided Sharon by striking a deal...