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...Western states, endangering Colorado's Wayne Allard, Idaho's Larry Craig and Oregon's Gordon Smith. And while Bush may be writing off California's votes, plenty of Democrats covet them, including putative presidential contender Joe Lieberman, whose first act as a new committee chairman last week was to launch hearings into the state's energy crisis...
...settlers demand that Sharon abandon the cease-fire and launch a military campaign to destroy the Palestinian Authority. On the Palestinian side, the Islamists and other militants are openly vowing to continue the fight. The original Oslo peace process factored in efforts by radicals on both sides to sabotage the process, leading to Rabin's formulation that "we will fight terrorism as if there is no peace, and pursue peace as if there is no terrorism." But there's no such separation of issues in Sharon's mind. The duration of the cease-fire may simply be measured...
...customers 30 years in one fell swoop," said Rose Marie Bravo, the voluble American who has steered the British Burberry brand for the past four years. Call it a billion-dollar bikini. Analysts valued Burberry at $280 million this time last year. Burberry's ipo, which is set to launch in mid-2002, anticipates a value of as much as $2.8 billion...
...also seriously charming, disarmingly direct and an unusual marriage of fresh thinker and hustling entrepreneur. In his previous life, he organized rock concerts for Labour, consulted on telecommunications, wrote books and founded the respected Third Way think tank Demos. After working for Blair at Downing Street, where he helped launch programs to cut poverty and unemployment, he became an officially nonpartisan civil servant last year in charge of 63 people trying to make government work smarter. "This government is obsessed with results," he says. How will it get them? Spending more is crucial but not enough. "All politicians recognize there...
...control is slipping. The Russians are losing allies through their own brutality and heavy-handedness and also the guerrillas' ruthless campaign of assassinating anyone who cooperates with the Moscow-backed administration. Guerrillas in Grozny have stepped up daylight attacks on Russian troops. And now they claim they will launch an offensive this summer, perhaps even before Vladimir Putin and George Bush meet later this month-seizing a large population center like Grozny or Gudermes and holding it for a few days to demonstrate Russian impotence. The strategy is simple, says one guerrilla commander: "Undermine their position this year and break...