WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday dismissed Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's characterization of the road map as being "dead," and insisted the step-by-step peace plan is the only mechanism for ending violence and creating a Palestinian state. "We didn't deal with Yasser Arafat when we were putting the road map together. And so his comments don't mean a whole lot to me, and I'm not responding to them in any way," Powell told reporters at the State Department, where he outlined a draft resolution the US is submitting to UN Security Council members calling for a...