Word: processing
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Voting in a presidential election can be like trying to predict the future. One must choose one of two candidates, in hopes that his decisions and policies over the next four years will be wise, or at least relatively sane. In order to assist your decision-making process, the following are two scenarios about what might happen under either a Gore, or a Bush, administration. The New York Times...
...flirtation with perjury for a frivolous lawsuit merits a full disbarment, and he wishes the Arkansas legal machinery could have left Americans with an undistracted President for the little time he's got left. "The conservatives are pushing this," he says. "But for what Clinton did, he deserves this process to go forward, and he does deserve to be reprimanded at least. It could wait, however, until he leaves office." Of course the right-wing Southeastern Legal Foundation knew exactly what it would get by initiating disbarment. The lawyer who'd strayed so publicly from the moral path would...
Israel's race to depart Lebanon could make life difficult for Yasser Arafat, because the spectacle of the Israeli army retreating under fire is emboldening Palestinian militants hostile to the peace process. Then again, Arafat is in no hurry to take the peace Ehud Barak is offering, and is happy to use the upsurge of violence on the West Bank to press for more concessions. "Palestinian leaders know from experience that outbreaks of violence create the pressure that forces Israel to make concessions," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "While the Israelis fear that the situation in the West...
...Israel by force of arms, but nowhere more so than among the Palestinian youths venting their frustration with stones and gasoline bombs. In response to their, and Hezbollah?s efforts, Barak at the weekend recalled his envoys from talks in Sweden designed to break the logjam in the peace process with the Palestinians and postponed a visit to Washington for talks with President Clinton...
...refugees, gives away 20 percent of the West Bank and settles for less than East Jerusalem. In other words, he can?t accept what Barak is offering." Both sides, then, may be tempted now to take the measure of the next U.S. administration assigned to umpire the peace process before committing themselves to any final decisions. And to turn up the heat on each other while they wait...