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...preference for delegating. It served him well in his race against Al Gore, as Bush said over and over that the secret to making government work was putting together a great team and then demanding results. That's a sensible approach when you have White House veterans like Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld to delegate to; but as Bush is learning now, it's not so great when...
...handicap for this Administration is that it has no credible uniformed stalwart to make the case for the war on a daily basis-as Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf did during the Gulf War. And so the sober, 69-year-old Rumsfeld has become the Administration's go-to guy. With Dick Cheney mostly at his undisclosed location, Rumsfeld is the government's resident grownup, an acerbic spokesman who can convey condescension and playfulness in the same breath, as he did last week when chiding a reporter for "beginning with an illogical premise and proceeding perfectly logically to an illogical...
...their aftermath. In Tallahassee, Fla., first-graders at Hartsfield Elementary School drew pictures for the President--and gave advice. "Dear George Bush," wrote Ian Pitts. "It's O.K. if you breate [sic] through grey smoke. But if black smokes gets in your lungs you will die." At the Colin Powell Academy for Success in Long Beach, Calif., students wrote to the Secretary of State. "I think we should sign a peace treaty," offered sixth-grader Arlene Lopez. Many schools held bake sales to raise money for disaster-relief funds--helpful to the destitute but also therapeutic for the donors. Esther...
...soured by American criticism of the jailing of Anwar. Mahathir has long been eager to mend ties with his country's biggest trade partner and investor, dispatching three separate envoys to Washington this year; as recently as July, Malaysia's Foreign Minister was told by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell that a requested meeting between the two leaders would depend on improved treatment of Anwar and detained members of the opposition. Now the Americans are listening. On Oct. 1, Bush phoned to ask Mahathir's advice on fighting terrorism and set a date for the two to meet...
...KASHMIR New Tension A visit by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to Pakistan and India failed to ease conflict over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Pakistani officials said a woman was killed and 25 others injured when Indian troops attacked Pakistani military posts across the cease-fire line. As shelling continued through the week, India accused Pakistan of infiltrating militants into the Indian-ruled state of Jammu and Kashmir...