Diplomats, politicians and - oh, no - press (Baltimore Sun)

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<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/washington/27prexy.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/washington/27prexy.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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It might seem, after nearly seven years of deliberate detachment from Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, that President Bush has plunged into Middle Eastern diplomacy with Clintonesque energy.</p>

<p>He met with the Israel and Palestinian leaders at the White House on Monday and will do so again on Wednesday. On Tuesday, he will meet them at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., along with delegations from 46 countries and international organizations (including, after an arm-twisting by phone last week, Saudi Arabia)…

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