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After the meeting I went to Boston for a fund-raiser for Senator John Kerry, who was up for reelection and would likely face a tough opponent in Governor Bill Weld. ence with President Mubarak, King Abdullah, Kofi Annan, and Javier Solana, now secretary-general of the European Union. It seemed to me that the violent outbursts were due, at least in part, to the excessive glorification of violence in our culture and the easy availability of deadly weapons to children. be; second, the plan was the best Hillary and Ira could do, given the charge from me: universal coverage without a tax increase; and

On the thirteenth, I flew to Tel Aviv to discuss specific steps the United States could take to help the Israeli military and police. A few months earlier Tom Oliphant, the thoughtful and independent-mindedBostonGlobe columnist, summed up the situatio ngress, and to oversee our preparations for the Summit of the Americas, to be held in Miami in December. e the fray, or who disagreed with us politically, but that, too, was part of what our generational change meant.