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...pushing against an open door. Unfortunately, during the long hiatus when Blair has been imploring Bush for help, relations between Israel and the Palestinians have soured to curdling and U.S. influence with Arab states has plummeted. "Besides the residual, declining power of America, Bush doesn't have any credit built up in the Arab world," says a British official. Nor does Blair. He's seen as an appendage to Bush, both because of Iraq and because he backed Israel in rejecting a quick cease-fire in Lebanon last summer. Then there are the shopworn policies the Prime Minister is advancing...
...whom are close to the Clintons--loudly called on Howard Dean to resign as Democratic chairman, saying the party could have won more House seats if he had spent its money more wisely. Liberal bloggers were slamming Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, saying he was taking credit for their victories. And the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of the most conservative House Democrats, was mounting a rear-guard campaign to save Harman's post at the Intelligence Committee. Savoring a team victory, it seems, is something the party has yet to get the hang...
...This is a decision that the guards, the union, slam, and the student body have fought very hard for,” Usmani wrote in an e-mail. “It is...something that neither Allied nor the administration granted easily, and not something that they deserve credit for.”SLAM aimed to get guards a fair contract, a living wage, affordable health care, and a fair grievance process, said Jamila R. Martin ’07, a SLAM member. But she said the fight is “far from over,” because...
...Square café. Clark said that they had seen a pretty steady flow of students since the start of the school year, especially since Head of the Charles, on top of the consistently “great” neighborhood contingent of moms and babies. He also gave special credit to Renee McLeod, the founder and namesake of Petsi Pies—“Petsi” was a childhood nickname—who brought her “grandmother’s crust-constructing knowledge and a fabulous sense of whimsy” to the business, according...
...chords linger in the background; crowds of victims wait for assistance as Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong asks “How long now?” The digitized military enters next, flying back from Iraq to airlift the victims to safety. To the video’s credit, the effects are interspersed with actual footage of the tragedy fairly realistically. But why? Green Day and U2 go to the trouble of creating a full-blown alternate history to tell us something we already knew: the government blew it. In case the viewer hasn’t been convinced...