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...Bush can take comfort that the moment is ripe. The 9/11 commission report is a blueprint to overhaul the U.S.'s intelligence agencies and plug holes in homeland security. Any swift executive action on those fronts lets Bush remind voters that he is a war President and that the danger is still real. Moving now is particularly important for Bush, since his once unassailable advantage on fighting terrorism has shrunk to just 8 percentage points in the polls. Kerry pounced on the findings of the 9/11 commission last week, using them as a bludgeon, charging that Bush was derelict...
...success," says Marc-Antoine Jamet, president of France's anti-counterfeiting lobbying group Union des Fabricants, and secretary-general of LVMH, whose Louis Vuitton bags are perhaps the most flagrantly ripped off in the world. "Nobody says that now. We see it as an economic and even a social danger...
...intention of getting the Palestinians out of their present diplomatic dead end, even as the prospects for a Palestinian state seem ever more distant. "We warned Arafat two years ago to clean his house," says a senior Fatah official. The official says Arafat is in no immediate danger of being ousted, but the escalating campaign against him could be laying the foundation for someone to edge him aside. --By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad
...stake in Kashagan and the allegedly unpaid taxes. Nazarbayev's stance may be part of a strategy to protect Kazakhstan's oil resources, but it's also intended for domestic political consumption. In September, the country will hold its first meaningful parliamentary elections, and though Nazarbayev is not in danger of losing power, he is for the first time facing an alliance of motivated opposition parties. Getting tough with foreign oil companies, whom many regard as outside exploiters, is likely to be popular with voters. The police probe into BG is still ongoing, and no formal charges have been filed...
...60s—like the bizarre parliamentary spectacle of the platform’s adoption by a half-empty floor, it was a show. There wouldn’t be any 1968-style riot and repression, to be sure, but along with that current of radical danger seemed to have gone any spirit of radical promise...