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...Things are looking absolutely awful for Barak. He's 22 points behind in the polls. His strategy had been to get a peace agreement and make the election a referendum on peace, but he's not going to get a deal. At best he'll get a loose declaration on peace that may not even be signed, but may simply be read by Clinton. The object would be mostly to carry over some momentum to the Bush administration, getting them excited about prospects for peace rather than making the whole issue look like a hand grenade about to explode...
...Barak is still trying to make it a referendum on peace, but unless he can convince a lot of Israelis that he can change the way he's handling things, he's going to lose. What Sharon has to do is to continue to press home his ideas, which are quite uncompromising, at the same time as vowing to continue some form of peace process, but nowhere near what Barak has shown he'll give. Polls show that many Israelis right now are quite happy to withhold what Barak has offered...
Lewis announced this fall that, although a student referendum to raise the fee narrowly failed in the spring, he was proceeding to raise the term bill fee. The council last week passed a resolution in support of his move...
...Canadians discuss programs this time around? I am happy to say that while the American candidates were exchanging trumped-up numbers about the cost of prescription drugs, Canadians, thanks to a CBC television program's campaign to satirize the Alliansistas' belief in national referenda, were gathering signatures for a referendum that would require Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris...
...Even before his latest maneuver, conventional wisdom among Israeli pundits has been that Barak can't win reelection unless he has a peace deal with Arafat around which to campaign, the calculation being that he might conceivably win an election that could be painted as a referendum choice between peace and war. But there's no sign of any agreement on the horizon, and Palestinian public opinion has turned as much, if not more, against the peace process as the Israeli electorate has. Still, for a man who had come to believe that diplomacy and negotiation would...