Short Takes: Carter, Philly Voting, Streisand Quits Israel Gig, Kissinger & McCain

The Washington Note is starting a new feature called "Short Takes" -- small, semi-daily snippets of items we found interesting combined with occasional gossip and insider DC intrigue. CARTER'S PROGRESS? Jimmy Carter's entrepreneurship has moved some Hamas leaders to offer Israel a ten-year truce. Hamas has offered such a deal before, and Israel rejected it with the Likud and political right arguing that such a truce would only provide time for the Muslim fundamentalist movement to further d