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British M.P. and former Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson has a lot of enemies, but he has one very old and dear friend: Prime Minister Tony Blair, who last week named him the U.K.'s representative on the European Commission. Of Mandelson's talents and aptitude for the job there is little doubt. He is one of the Labour Party's most passionate pro-Europeans and a principal architect of the party's 1980s makeover from an unpopular assemblage of hapless lefties to the formidable centrist vote-getting machine it became under Blair. But he is also Machiavellian and polarizing...
...denied that he's grooming his younger son, Gamal, a senior member of the ruling National Democratic Party, to replace him, new Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, pictured, and eight other new ministers are part of Gamal's team of young modernizers. Opinion was divided on whether the new Cabinet heralded real change. "This is a new generation, with new ideas and a new way of thinking," a senior official told TIME. But Hisham Kassem, publisher of the proreform Cairo daily Al-Masry al-Youm, said: "It strikes me as a release of steam more than a progressive move...
...President as an aloof figure who has disappointed her supporters, a few nimble political moves-from cutting taxes to abolishing school fees to reshuffling ministers-could win over plenty of skeptics. "If she starts acting like a leader and makes some strong changes to the economy and the Cabinet," says Umar Juoro, of the Center for Information and Development Studies in Jakarta, "she has a chance of winning...
...guest at Borchardt's could bump chairs with German Cabinet Ministers, the Rolling Stones, Leonardo DiCaprio or Cameron Diaz. Hillary Clinton dined here in July 2003 with Stefan Aust, editor of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel. "It's very central and the food is good," says Ursula von Langermann, head of the North American division at the German Foreign Ministry. "Whenever I have an international guest I take them here, and if Chancellor (Gerhard) Schr?der or Foreign Minister (Joschka) Fischer walk in, they're just floored...
...Prime Minister is moving fast. A mere 24 hours after taking over, Allawi's Cabinet approved three far-reaching security measures. First, it reinstated the death penalty, which Bremer suspended a year ago. It drew up an amnesty plan that is meant to siphon Iraqi nationals from the foreign insurgents. And the Cabinet promulgated a new public-safety law that gives the government broad--some say undemocratic--anti-insurgency powers. The edict stops short of the martial law Allawi had earlier hinted at, but only just. In designated areas--like Fallujah--the government will be able to restrict movement temporarily...