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...power in Baghdad becomes increasingly difficult to identify. Right now, executive authority remains in the hands of the lame-duck government of interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, the U.S. appointee who garnered only 14 percent of the vote in the election and who has turned down offers of a cabinet post in order to claim the role of opposition leader...
Former Mason Fellows include Elbegdori Tsakhia, Prime Minister of Mongolia, LeeHsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore, Frank Chikane, executive head of the presidency and secretary of the Cabinet in South Africa, as well as leaders within development banks, humanitarian aid programs, ministry departments, embassies, national assemblies, state bureaus, and other organizations which facilitate growth...
...going to protect the historic rights of the legislative minority," said Senator Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat who has frequently cosponsored legislation with Republicans and, as a matter of principle, almost always supports the President on his Cabinet appointments. Feingold offered last week the most responsible budget amendment imaginable: that Congress be required to pay, through taxes or cuts, for any new spending proposals. It failed, for lack of G.O.P. support. "The Republicans talk about fiscal responsibility," he told me, "but they are openly hostile to it if it stands in the way of tax cuts. They are totally intoxicated...
Sometimes the hardest thing about being Secretary of State is managing relations with 191 other countries across the globe. And sometimes it's just making nice with three or four of your colleagues in the Cabinet. Colin Powell once told his British counterpart, Jack Straw, that intramural squabbling in Washington kept him from traveling. Every time he stepped onto an airplane to fly overseas, Powell said, someone in Washington stuck a knife in his back...
...someone who, as National Security Adviser during Bush's first term, often seemed overwhelmed by rivals in the war Cabinet, Rice has displayed striking confidence in her early forays as a diplomat. Foreign officials note that she likes to play solo, holding meetings without a phalanx of regional experts. Others report that she is unexpectedly generous with her time, even to countries that have been sharply critical of the U.S. At the Sharm el-Sheikh summit in February between Arab and Israeli leaders, Rice met with all the participants individually but steered clear of the summit to avoid the appearance...