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...effective president-for-life of the Palestinians, concern over his own legacy - particularly the fear of being remembered as a traitor rather than a savior - has him going to Washington looking over his left shoulder. He even invited members of two left-wing factions opposed to the Oslo Accords to join his delegation (the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine accepted, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine demurred). And Arafat's aides proclaimed over the weekend that any deal the leader reaches would be put to the vote in a referendum involving all Palestinians in the West...
...problems plaguing the talks are so fundamental to the peace process that even another round of sequestered summitry with President Clinton may struggle to overcome them. The premise of the Oslo Accord had been that the topics on the table this week were too fraught to be tackled early on, and should be postponed to allow interim agreements to foster greater trust between Israelis and Palestinians. If anything, the reverse has been true, with the result that Arafat and Barak have to make an even greater leap of faith than the late Yitzhak Rabin made with the Palestinian leader...
...require cooperation from none other than OPEC. Richardson will try diplomatic jawboning to get some of its members to loosen their restraints on supply. He's scheduled to meet this week with Mexico's Oil Minister at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He'll then travel to Oslo and, later in February, to the Middle East for more arm-twisting. Perhaps he'll remind the Kuwaitis and the Saudis that they owe the U.S. a favor. And he'll warn the producers that there are real macroeconomic risks to higher oil prices, such as choking off Asia...
...Andy Warhol wrote a quotable quote. His words appeared free-standing, without explanation, in the catalog for his Oslo exhibition. His comment on fame--that everyone would achieve fleeting notoriety--became famous in its own right. Was this an ironic twist? Or maybe Warhol's point exactly...
...long ago, people talked about global warming in apocalyptic terms--imagining the Statue of Liberty up to its chin in water or an onslaught of tropical diseases in Oslo. Recently, however, advances in our understanding of climate have moved global warming from a subject for a summer disaster movie to a serious but manageable scientific and policy issue...