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...said the idea of Bin Laden's demise appears to have originated as a "hypothesis of some Saudi intelligence analysts with no hard evidence to back it up. No one at a high level is satisfied it's true." At his country's national day celebration in Washington, Saudi Ambassador Prince Turki al-Faisal said, "My understanding is that [Bin Laden] is alive and well and kicking. But I may be wrong...
...which charges that Chavez is a would-be dictator in the mold of Fidel Castro - and also fears that Venezuela might thwart the Bush Administration's efforts to rein in Iran's uranium enrichment program - is battling hard to get Guatemala elected to the Latin seat instead. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton - pointing to just the kind of raw rhetoric Chavez used today - has repeatedly warned that Venezuela would be a "disruptive" presence on the Council. Nevertheless, Chavez looks likely to best the U.S. in this contest...
Paul Wolfowitz is used to getting his own way. As deputy defense secretary, Wolfowitz helped plan the U.S. invasion of Iraq; as a central figure in the Bush Administration's neoconservative camp, the former ambassador to Indonesia was one of the chief architects of the White House's ambitious and controversial plan to reshape the Middle East. When Wolfowitz took over as the president of the World Bank last year, he told TIME he would be "results driven...
...interest in; it's just that now she's expanding that interest. Her staff didn't mention it, but polls show the First Lady is roughly twice as popular as her husband. And she does not carry the baggage he does internationally, so she can serve as an appealing ambassador for an Administration that needs all the friends...
...mother, Jenna Welch, and mother-in-law, Barbara Bush, who had made literacy her signature issue when she was First Lady. Here's how it originated: When the United States re-entered UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 2003, the group made her Honorary Ambassador for the Decade of Literacy. The First Lady, who has a master's in library science from the University of Texas, wanted to do something substantive so that it wasn't just a title...