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...Emerald City, a forthcoming book about the Green Zone by the Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran. The details were confirmed for TIME by an official who was involved, who added a telling coda: Bremer actually liked the new arrangement because he "got to deal with Condi, who had the President's ear." Since moving out of the West Wing to take over State in early 2005, Rice has returned there often and has remained close to the President and First Lady. Now the President's hopes for becoming a Middle East peacemaker lie with the imperturbable...
...closely together and sometimes cut the Pentagon out, according to participants. Until now, she has won generally glowing marks for a record that includes offering the first substantive talks with Iran in 27 years. But some Bush aides were miffed that she embarked on what they sarcastically called the "Condi Rice Show" without a clearly attainable goal. Her initial round of diplomacy in the Israel-Hizballah hostilities was mostly portrayed as a failure, and she looked drained as she emerged from a meeting of world powers in Rome, where many allies had pushed to call for an immediate cease-fire...
...with real force, lest it seem that Israel was merely retreating from a tough fight. Furthermore, it was the Bush Administration-not the Israelis, not the Palestinian Authority-that insisted the Palestinian elections go forward last January, with disastrous consequences. "The only people who want those elections are Condi Rice and Hamas," a prominent member of Israel's Kadima party told me just before Hamas won the election. A more careful and collegial U.S. Middle East policy might have forced the simultaneous disarming of Hizballah as Syrian troops left Lebanon in 2005. This is not to say that the Bush...
...While the Iranians are unlikely to simply accept the terms set by Secretary Rice, their mastery of diplomacy suggests they're also unlikely to flatly reject the offer. More likely, they'll come back with a more qualified, nuanced offer - not altogether different from the one made by Condi Rice. As long as both sides prefer to avoid a violent confrontation, that's the kind of careful chess game they'll continue to play...
...According to the State Department official, Idol isn't the only junk food on Condi's TV diet. She also watches Law & Order and was a fan of The Bernie Mac Show before its cancellation. But while there are no plans at the moment for a Condi-Taylor duet, Idol fans cast a total of 63.4 million votes Tuesday night - which host Ryan Seacrest pointed out was "more than any President in the history of our country has ever received." And since 35% of American Idol fans believe the votes cast in the singing competition count as much or more...