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Bush's challenge right now is difficult and twofold: he must remind Americans of the U.S.'s lofty purpose in Iraq while getting them to accept the gritty reality on the ground. And only if they re-embrace the former will they reconcile themselves to the latter. So it was fortuitous for him that two men came to the rescue last week and laid the groundwork for this complicated message. On the higher stratum, Blair touched down in Washington for six hours and gave a stirring address to Congress that portrayed the Iraq campaign as nothing short of a call...
...wild card," notes James Mitchell, analyst at the brokerage firm Putnam Lovell. "He hasn't been out front before. That's where he's really got to pick up the slack." Prince doesn't necessarily accept that. "Everybody's personality is different," he told TIME. "I don't expect to see myself in the society pages." That's fine with Citi's board. "What good is a high profile?" says Richard Parsons, who is CEO of AOL Time Warner (which publishes TIME) and a Citi director. "We need somebody who can actually do some stuff...
...Even if you accept them on face value as being true, it’s just not the kind of thing anyone would see as rising to the level of espionage,” Genser said. “It’s the work of a pro-democracy activist...
...have different religious convictions and still live together in harmony. Even though the three Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have big differences, they also have many things in common. It is natural to have different beliefs. Many people around the globe are born into religions that they accept as a way of life. Instead of always trying to make others see our point of view, perhaps we should accept that every religion is a path to God in its own way. Only with understanding and acceptance can there come peace. Adam Muneer Yusoff Maniam Singapore...
...outsider to politics and to the communist system, he's simply not very clever at it. For Beijing, he is as frustrating as one of those airport trolleys with a bad wheel that won't push straight. Yet Beijing's rulers cannot afford to sack Tung or even to accept his resignation: that would be an acknowledgment that they picked the wrong guy for the job, and it would also undermine the fiction that China does not meddle in Hong Kong's affairs. A reliable source tells me that when Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Hong Kong on July...