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...prevent others if we can. He won't bash Clinton directly, but he suggests much of the killing that has gone on in the past decade could have been prevented by stronger U.S. leadership. "Bush had no problem in the Gulf--a vital national interest was at stake there--but he had no problem in Somalia either," Annan says. Courage, he believes, will always trump cowardice...
Kofi Annan's next peacekeeping operation comes later this month--not in the jungles of a Third World nation but in Washington, where hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. After almost three years of legislative foot dragging, Congress has agreed to pay $926 million of the $1.8 billion the U.N. says the U.S. owes in back dues. But the cash comes with about two dozen conditions that were crafted by Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms and the panel's senior Democrat, Joseph Biden. To get the first $100 million last year, the U.N. had to meet...
...relationship between politics and the stock market is overvalued. Peace, low mortgage rates, affordable gas and, yes, Alan Greenspan are way more important to investors than which party is in power. Yet every four years, after the Dems and the G.O.P. stake out the policy battleground at their national conventions, wags start in on how the market would fare under each candidate. Fun sport. But the Clinton years in particular stand much received wisdom on its head...
...Politics.com Packages polls, forums and fund-raising data. Recently sold an 80% stake in Medinex, a physicians' office-management site, to help stanch a flow of red ink that topped $6 million...
...their talks with about 85,000 deeply disgruntled employees. The workers, who tend to the telephone needs of roughly 25 million Verizon customers, primarily along the eastern seaboard, are up in arms over the company's refusal to allow wireless employees to unionize. There are other labor issues at stake as well - forced overtime, job stress, outsourcing work to non-union contractors - but the spotlight remains fixed on workforce unionization...