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...back to the square on New Year's Eve to celebrate the orange revolution's victory. But as he was about to leave for the speech, two close allies, M.P.s Volodymyr Felenko and Taras Stetskiv, rushed into his office. Government sources had told them Yanukovych planned to chair a Cabinet meeting the following day, thumbing his nose at the still-unofficial result. "It was an open insult to the people, and to the Rada [parliament] that voted to fire Yanukovych earlier this month," Stetskiv told Time. He urged Yushchenko to tell the Maidan about Yanukovych's plan, and to call...
...background, blindness and gift for straight talk bought him sympathy - but worried that his judgment had become skewed when he went to court to demand access to his lover's 2-year-old boy, who Blunkett says is his son. An authorized biography full of nasty remarks about his Cabinet colleagues was released as his troubles mounted, making enemies when he needed friends. One day after he attended the Christmas party of backbench Labour M.P.s and awkwardly sang the Fred Astaire?Ginger Rogers standard Pick Yourself Up, he was forced to dust himself off and start all over again. Charles...
...going on, so I haven't been in a very reflective mood," says the man who has just replaced half his Cabinet, dispatched 12,000 more troops into battle, arm wrestled lawmakers over an intelligence bill, held his third economic summit and begun to lay the second-term paving stones on which he will walk off into history. Asked about his re-election, he replies, "I think over the Christmas holidays it'll all sink...
From the outset, however, the President said of Snow, "I'm not predisposed towards replacing him," the Administration official told TIME. Behind the scenes, Bush had insisted on a careful re-evaluation of every Cabinet member. A number of first-termers were planning to leave of their own accord, whereas others, the Administration official said, were discreetly pushed. In Snow's case, the White House chose to take its time. Consideration was given to Gramm and Forbes. But as the Administration official put it, "For every good thing they brought to the table, there was something offsetting." As a maverick...
That left Snow, former CEO of railroad company CSX, the last man standing. Yet his triumph in the Cabinet sweepstakes could soon be tested. This week the White House will stage a two-day conference designed to highlight Bush's ambitious second-term domestic plans. To sell that package, Snow will need even more support from Bush, especially against the current backdrop of sluggish job growth, a slumping dollar, and record trade and fiscal deficits. --By Adam Zagorin and James Carney