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...followed by France and Britain. There's some opposition in Britain from Conservative party 'Euroskeptics' who see this as another erosion of British sovereignty, but there are very few grounds for this argument since the force is, like NATO, comprised of entirely separate national contingents which retain their own command structures...
...Cabinet Room are probably the most famous chambers because of the deliberations of war and peace in the past half-century. The East Room and the State Dining Room have always been halls for mingling, feeding and entertaining hundreds of people. Ulysses S. Grant, summoned to Washington to command Union armies, arrived when Abraham Lincoln was in the midst of an evening reception. Grant stood on a sofa in the East Room so that the worshipful guests could see him and he could speak to them. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last communist leader of the Soviet Union, ate in the State...
...Judges. In it, General Gideon gathers his troops to be on the march. He leads them to a lake and tells them to drink. Some of the troops put their face in the water and gulp; others cup their hands and drink. The general, acting on God's command, tells those who gulped to return home, those who cupped their hands to follow him. Why? Because those who cupped their hands were taking just what they needed, a sign they were there out of commitment. And in a meeting with his staff the next morning, he drew on the work...
...suite at the Greenville Grand Hyatt that afternoon, Bush's top aides came together to save the campaign, but they were really plotting a murder. It was the Bush high command, with its South Carolina auxiliary: Rove; spokeswoman Hughes, as well as Warren Tompkins, a longtime G.O.P. operative in the state; state attorney general Charlie Condon; Lieutenant Governor Bob Peeler; and former Governor David Beasley. As a participant put it later, this was the moment "we decided to take the gloves...
...wild card, as ever, is Montesinos. Nobody knows quite where the shadowy intelligence chief is since his ostensible return to Peru. Despite being on the run, Montesinos is believed to command significant loyalty in the military brass, having appointed many of its leading figures to their positions. That's if he's still alive - opposition leader Alejandro Toledo, speaking in Spain at the weekend, speculated that the former intelligence chief, who's been implicated in political bribery and also in a gun-running scandal, may actually have been killed. But nobody's betting on that...