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Olmert's elegant and noiseless assumption of power last week was a singularly un-Israeli sort of act: a dog that didn't bark in a prohibitively raucous canine nation. His public gestures were tasteful. He refused to sit in Sharon's seat at the first Cabinet meeting or use Sharon's office. He gave no interviews, a real departure for a politician who had served as the Prime Minister's talk-radio pit bull. He traded his famously dreadful orange ties for blue and black stripes. He was not seen smoking one of his beloved cigars. He looked very...
...army, but not prominently. He has never held a major security portfolio. He will be under pressure to reveal Kadima's plans for disengagement on the West Bank. "But he's not going to put out a map during an election campaign," a member of Olmert's Cabinet told me. "That would be crazy, given the uncertainty on the other side." Indeed, Avi Dichter--who will probably be a leading security spokesman for Kadima--sounded very much like a Likudnik when discussing future plans. "Israel is not going to try any experiments in the West Bank to let it become...
...didn't beat them to it. In Thatcher: The Musical, opening next month in Britain, an all-female cast will sing its way through the life of former Prime Minister MARGARET THATCHER, 80. The Foursight Theatre troupe plans to tour the nation with Iron Lady--inspired ditties like The Cabinet Shuffle. Nothing says toe tapper like the champion of free markets...
...other Republicans. Boehner's backers were thrilled when the widely forwarded spreadsheet produced a front-page headline in The Hill, a newspaper focused on Congress, saying BOEHNER BOASTS OF BIG BUCKS. Eight months later, his team smiled again when the paper ran a list of Boehner's "K Street Cabinet," loyal lobbyists and other power brokers who would help run the show if he achieved his longtime ambition of becoming House Speaker or majority leader. With Tom DeLay's machine still in charge of the Capitol, those were the credentials that would get an aspiring lawmaker taken seriously...
...negotiated agreements or ideology. Whatever Sharon did, he was at least as devoted to the fight as to the cause. That is what made him one of the greatest?some peers say the greatest?military commander in Israeli history. It's what enabled him, from a variety of Cabinet posts, to construct settlements in the face of international opprobrium. But it's also what allowed him not only to evacuate Gaza but, 23 years earlier, to tear down settlements in Egypt's Sinai peninsula and use water cannons to force out the Israelis there, putting Israel in compliance with Israel...