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...cross it, and indeed vowed not to change the status quo, was a victory for diplomacy and pragmatism-and the climax to weeks of frenzied lobbying and pressure by the U.S. "I don't think anybody [in Washington] considers [Chen] reckless," says James Lilley, a former U.S. ambassador to China. "He's a very calculating lawyer who's got an agenda and who tests the waters...
...military service. Fahrenheit 9/11 is necessarily less personal than Bowling for Columbine and lacks its freewheeling gusto. But it's a fascinating collection of talking points in this election year. In Moore, the American left has its canniest Bush ambusher, its savviest guerrilla entertainer, and its most colorful ambassador to filmdom's biggest annual bash...
...Politicians reward their biggest contributors, and the Bushes are no exceptions. Fifteen of the 19 September 11th hijackers were Saudis; but when Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador who is close to the First Family, dined with the President in the White House two days after the attacks, the mood was collegial, not angry. In the Iraqi ramp-up and occupation, the Administration has rewarded its Saudi and Texas supporters with billions in rebuilding contracts. As Blaine Ober, president of an armored vehicle company, tells Moore: the Iraqi adventure is ?good for business, bad for the people...
...going to have a lot of people who are not under official cover." America's most famous NOC is Valerie Plame, the CIA operative exposed last summer after a columnist reported that Bush administration officials had said she was behind a 2002 trip by her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, to Africa to investigate claims that Saddam had sought to buy uranium from Niger...
...dispute that is worth perhaps 50 billion times that amount. Pulses race, heads turn, eyes roll among the negotiators; each side digs its trench a little deeper. This is petro-diplomacy, Timor Sea style. "It's like dealing with the Krajina Serbs (in Croatia)," says Galbraith, a former U.S. Ambassador in Zagreb, describing the Australians, who on the second day of talks declared that Dili's top priority - lateral boundaries - was off the table...