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...that's an integral part of the message Abbas will bring to the White House on Friday: That unless Washington puts pressure on Israel to grant more concessions on prisoner-releases and other issues, Abbas's government will collapse. And Arafat will not shed any tears; he'll simply appoint a new prime minister...
LAILA DAVOY, Norwegian legislator and sponsor of a bill requiring publicly traded companies to appoint women to 40% of their board seats by July...
...electricity supply to Baghdad. They want their immediate problems addressed, and they want to see a clear timetable and program for restoring their country to Iraqi rule. While Bremer has prudently avoided prematurely transferring power to an interim government dominated by pro-U.S. exiles, his decision to appoint an Iraqi consultative body rather than allow a governing structure to emerge from a national assembly is facing mounting criticism from all sides. The most serious blow came this week in the form of a 'fatwa' by Iraq's leading Shiite cleric denouncing Bremer's plan and insisting that Iraqis chose...
...that has effectively decided to run the country on its own. Earlier this month, the U.S. decided against allowing a group of seven former opposition parties--a coalition calling itself the "leadership council"--to quickly establish an all-Iraqi provisional government. Instead, civilian administrator Paul Bremer announced plans to appoint a 25-to-30-person political council that will answer to him; U.S. officials told TIME they hope to name councilors by early next month. Bremer modified the plan in response to Iraqi demands that the council be given more clout and independence, but the U.S.'s prewar allies aren...
...election. Blair can always take comfort that whatever consumes the political class in Westminster - like the current flap over his arrogant announcement, in a press release and without prior consultation, that he planned to eliminate the 1,400-year-old office of Lord Chancellor, create a Supreme Court and appoint his old flatmate to be Minister of Constitutional Affairs - he remains the most consistently popular Prime Minister since the 1960s. But at the risk of offering one of those gloomy prognoses he is so good at confounding, I would argue that Blair has reached the apogee of his premiership...