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...foreign policy success before Clinton leaves office, especially against the grim backdrop of Kosovo, will urge the parties to speed toward new agreements. Barak wants agreements too, but on his terms. He has pledged to withdraw Israeli forces from south Lebanon within a year, but he rejects the notion of a unilateral pullout. He is ready to do a deal with Syria on returning the Golan Heights but hangs tough on demilitarization and full normalization of ties...
...Certainly all this is a rank humiliation. But it is surely a single-edged sword. OK, so the U.S. lost -- pride, secrets, self-confidence -- but there's little logic to the notion that China somehow won. Remember, these are nukes, not stealth bombers, or fighter jets, or even tanks. If this is the second Cold War, it started a long time...
...Having worked for Democrats and Republicans, Gergen represents the old notion that duty to country is not partisan," he wrote. "Also, he is a Harvard Law School grad, which reminds us that we come from a tradition of providing this country with the `best and the brightest' to advance the common good...
...novelty has worn off--and with it the notion that DaimlerChrysler was a merger of equals. Just a year ago, the CEOs of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corp.--Jurgen Schrempp and Bob Eaton, respectively--made the surprise announcement that their two companies were going to combine. But Eaton, the executive who presided over Chrysler's transformation into America's hottest car company, ceded too much authority too early, giving the Germans an advantage in the high-stakes game of musical chairs that happens when two huge corporations marry...
...notion of talking through trauma gained currency during World War II, when soldiers were "debriefed" on the beaches of Normandy. In the 1970s, Jeffrey Mitchell, then a paramedic and now president of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, developed one of the most popular debriefing models. Intended to be used in conjunction with other services, such as one-on-one counseling and on-scene support, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing is conducted in groups a couple of days after a disaster. Typical questions include "What were the first thoughts that raced through your mind at the time of the crisis...