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Powell has been plagued from the outset by the conflicting messages sent by his administration. Sharon chose to hear mostly the administration's message that it understood his actions in terms of Israel's need to defend itself. Emboldened by support from Bush administration hawks for his efforts to take...
Powell had hoped to move the process forward by fixing both parties' eyes on the political horizon, pressing for a quick resumption of negotiations over Palestinian statehood. On that front, Sharon suggested a regional peace conference, possibly to be held in the U.S. in June. And although the Israeli leader...
But sometimes it is the duty of political leaders to sup with the devil. Many national-liberation struggles, not excepting Israel's fight for existence in the 1940s, have seen violence against civilians: think Ireland or Kenya. Such outrages cannot be a reason for never talking to those responsible for...
That gambit fizzled when Powell found out about it, but the hawks moved again a month later, pressing Bush for a broad military action against Iraq's Saddam Hussein, America's latest target of "evil" in the region. They believed Bush should seize his chance while his postwar popularity was...
The new dean of the school of education said last week that Summers told her the school should “focus its mission more sharply and support rigorous research directed at solving the most pressing problems in education.”