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...were impressed that they took the initiative to come to us and to ask us to collaborate with them,” said Clare Putnam, coordinator of student programs and fellowships at the Weatherhead Center, who was involved in the decision...
...used to be a place where Blair soared, but Iraq is turning it into a millstone. The coalition's quick victory has been eclipsed by the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction, on which he grounded the case for war. Last week his former International Development Minister, Clare Short, accused him of "honorable deception" - lying to get backing for a conflict he had secretly promised George W. Bush to fight. Downing St. officials say they're confident the skeptics will look stupid when wmd are found, that Blair didn't lie and that polls show voters think...
...danger of destroying his legacy as he becomes increasingly obsessed by his place in history." Clare Short, former British Cabinet minister, on Prime Minister Tony Blair, in her resignation speech before Parliament
...APPOINTED. BARONESS AMOS, 49, as Britain's International Development Secretary; in London. Amos, the first black woman to serve in the British Cabinet, will replace Clare Short, who resigned after opposing Prime Minister Tony Blair's Iraq policies...
...know a new European treaty is being considered; when informed, 84% want to vote on it. Blair won't permit a referendum; it's the last thing he needs. But opponents think the refusal leaves him vulnerable to charges of arrogance - which not only Tories are making. Clare Short, his longtime International Development Minister, quit the Cabinet last week to protest the U.N.'s marginal role in Iraq, but blasted Blair for issuing "diktats in favor of increasingly badly thought-through policy initiatives." To British voters, arrogance and Brus-sels are intertwined - yet another trap for Blair. And even...