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...government promises to include ministers from outside Labour's ranks. Lord Ashdown, a Liberal Democrat and former leader of his party who went on to serve as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, revealed last week that he had turned down an approach to join Brown's new-look cabinet. Other candidates may have accepted. Brown told the BBC he was also hoping to "draw on some of the talents of our society who are not normally associated with party political events and forces." He'll unveil the lineup of his new government before the end of the week...
...easy answers. For the time being, the U.S. is pinning its hopes on Abbas, a moderate secularist who has been the titular leader of the Palestinians since the death of Yasser Arafat in 2004. Abbas has dismissed the Hamas-led government elected in January 2006 and appointed a new Cabinet of technocrats. To avoid a repeat of Fatah's defeat in Gaza, the U.S. moved swiftly to bolster Abbas in the West Bank by lifting an embargo on aid funds for the Palestinians. The new strategy--shared by the Israelis, the Europeans and the Bush Administration--is to flood Abbas...
...region, such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, to reach out to pragmatic figures like U.S.-educated Ziad Abou Amar, a respected Palestinian academic with good contacts in the West and Gaza. Other go-betweens include doctors, businessmen and engineers, many of whom served in the previous Hamas cabinet. They don't belong to the Islamic movement, but their advice is often heeded by Hamas...
...longtime commander in the Palestine Liberation Organization, he will serve as Interior Minister in the new Cabinet. A previous stint in that post lasted just four months THE TWO TERRITORIES [This article contains a detailed map and a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
Chertoff may require that self-control to get through the Washington cocktail parties that he--nearly alone among Bush Cabinet members--makes a point of frequenting. Socializing with his opponents, Chertoff says, allows him "to make sure we're not living in a tunnel." But there is a political benefit to all that Chardonnay sipping as well. You can look your opponents in the eye. "It's harder to demonize somebody if you've gotten to know them as a person," he says...