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...Actor Danny Glover, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and U.S. anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, among others, have recently visited Caracas as Chavez supporters. A group of Americans also appeared on Chavez?s Sunday television show to thank him for setting up a fuel subsidy program to supply cheap heating oil to poor families in the northeast U.S. last winter; on Monday Chavez pledged to expand the program to help Europe's poor as well. Other foreigners like Jim McLlroy, a retired government worker from Australia, have recently moved to Caracas to write about Venezuela?s political movement. "Venezuela...
...troubles, Blair has shown no signs of even thinking about stepping aside. A Labour Party activist says that when he recently told a Blair aide that a change of leadership seemed necessary, the aide "looked at me as if I'd said his child wasn't his." Despite the personal awkwardness of their complex relationship, Blair and Brown agree on most policy questions, and Blair knows a crucial part of his legacy will be how well his successor fares. But Blair, still only 53, will never have a better job. And "he has amazing self-belief," says a Downing Street...
...also held our second annual TIME 100 dinner, marking the most influential people in the world. (That's Stephen Colbert holding a copy of the special issue with our 2006 list.) Paul Simon and the Dixie Chicks performed, and Senator John McCain, Katie Couric, Wynton Marsalis and Pakistani activist Mukhtaran Bibi toasted those who had influenced them. Nearly 100 Influentials were on hand that evening, including U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Ralph Nader, Will Smith, George Lucas, Nobel laureate James Watson, Bill Belichick and Dr. Andrew Weil. We also attracted such political opposites as Bill O'Reilly...
...what the value of the whole exercise has been. White House officials hint that only long-distance calls, not local ones, are in the database, but they won't go much further. Even some of the President's friends say they need more answers. Asks Grover Norquist, a G.O.P. activist and an important White House ally: "The question for the government is, What was the point of this? What did this do for us? What is it good...