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...Italy, who is expected to deliver a key policy speech. At a few minutes after 10 a.m. the hubbub ceases, and all eyes turn to the man at the microphone. He begins to speak, calmly and quietly. Camillo Cardinal Ruini doesn't need to raise his voice to command attention. For some months now, Italian politicians, as well as his colleagues in the Church hierarchy, have been hanging on his words. Last April's election of traditionalist Pope Benedict XVI boosted the standing of conservatives like Ruini, 74. The Cardinal, the head of the Italian Bishops' Conference, also serves...
...secret meeting took place earlier this year on the outskirts of Baghdad, in a safe house known only to the insurgents in attendance. One of them, an Iraqi known by the nom de guerre Abu Marwan, is a senior commander of the leading Baathist guerrilla group called the Army of Mohammed. Together with a representative of an alliance of Iraqi Islamist insurgent groups, Abu Marwan met aides to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. The purpose was to discuss the idea of uniting under a joint command the disparate networks fighting U.S. forces in Iraq...
Certainly the decisions they face are life and death, as TIME observed when it was recently granted exclusive access to operations of the Air Force's 15th Reconnaissance Squadron, which commands 25 Predators from Nellis. It was 10:30 p.m. in Nevada, 9:30 a.m. in Iraq, and after two hours of watching insurgents fire a pickup-truck-mounted .50-cal. machine gun at U.S. troops in western Iraq, Rogers and the sensor operator with whom he works were given the command to shoot the truck. Both developed a case of what Rogers calls the "trembles"--the nervousness of wanting...
...fact, but in this case they chose to withhold what they knew even while the danger persisted. As the poison flowed downstream, information flowed in only one direction: up. While the public remained in the dark, officials reported to their superiors, who in turn reported further up the command chain. At each level, officials understood that there was less risk of official censure in awaiting orders than in making snap decisions that might have enabled residents to prepare...
...President as a strong and eager participant in campaigns for House and Senate and probably governor,? said an official familiar with his plans. ?Despite some of the polling atmospheric problems you're seeing in D.C., the President is still a tremendous draw across the country. Nobody can command the media attention that he can, and nobody has the ability to raise the kind of money that he does. Clearly, there are some districts where it won't make sense for him to go, as with any president...