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ry well known and respected by peers and foreign leaders. But they lack the stage presence of their immediate predecessors. Obama's list centers on John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice; and National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon

Committee; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice; and National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon. According to insiders, Obama is thinking Kerry would travel a lot and successfully, and interfere least with policymaking. Susan Rice's blend of soft and hard line sits well in the Oval Office.

d, in January, to Turkey — a country whose electoral democracy and moderate Islamism are serving as a "model" to a growing number of Hamas leaders, Yousef said. One month after that trip, though, Haniyeh visited Iran, another longtime Hamas benefactor. Despite public discontent, Hamas officials seem

4.4 ME PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY. AUGUST 14. 2006 Jeffrey Epstein has donated more than $100,000 to Democratic candidates' campaigns, including John Kerry's presidential bid, the reelection campaign of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and the Senate bids of Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dod

Sintilarly. Mr Bush defeated Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.. two years ago by constantly resurrecting the sear- ing memory of 9/11 and questioning Sen. Kerry's toughness against terror- ism. In the months leading up to the election. the Bush administration is- sued a terror alert about once a week. O(kll

old the CIA about bin laden's plans to knock down big buildings using plants and blow up airliners using small chemical bombs. That was in 1995. Yousef was later convicted in the US. for the MI bombing of the Workl Trade Center. On Thursday. the British arrest- ed 24 people, including one airport

the consternation it is causing in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's effort to challenge the notions at the heart of Allen's and more broadly the Kerry-led policy to facilitate a negotiated agreement. So, for example, Netanyahu has wrapped himself in the revered mantle of slain Prime Minister Yitzh

EFTA00636716 Alon Tal of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is a visiting professor at the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. Yousef Abu- Mayla is a water expert at Al Azhar University in Gaza. Anicic 7. Spiegel old CW ar in the Pacific: China Escalates Tensions with Neighbors