Word: diplomatic
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Toward the start of his new film The Constant Gardener, Ralph Fiennes, as Justin Quayle, a British diplomat stationed in Kenya, is told that his young wife Tessa may have been killed while on a research trip with another man. As the camera holds on him, searching for a reaction, Fiennes doesn't conjure up a rage or a gasp. He doesn't gush a stream of tears or obscenities. He moves hardly at all. Yet alert viewers will see his pale face turn a shade ashen. They will watch his spirit sink as he struggles to retain propriety. Somehow...
...Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, have tried to forge a strategic alliance with Tehran, even seeking to have Iranians recognized as a minority group under Iraq's proposed constitution. "We have to think anything we tell or share with the Iraqi government ends up in Tehran," says a Western diplomat...
...previous experience in international diplomacy, said he would come up with a nuke initiative of his own, once he had completed his cabinet appointments. That gave a glimmer of hope to some European officials. "Obviously, things haven't moved in the direction we'd all hoped," a French diplomat told TIME, "but all options and possible outcomes remain fully open." U.S. President George W. Bush reacted cautiously, saying "the world is coalescing" against Iran's ambitions, and wouldn't rule out sanctioning military force against the country. Analyst Karim Sadjadpour of the International Crisis Group says that Iranian officials...
...overcoming difference." And yet while many Americans share Rice's desire to spread democracy in the Middle East, far fewer believe it's still worth the price the U.S. is paying to try to achieve it in Iraq. And so the biggest question facing the country's top diplomat is not so much whether she can spread the Bush doctrine but whether she can save...
...pick with a U.S. or foreign official, she will order everyone out of the room and remonstrate in private. "She's not afraid to pick up the phone and trust her own instincts," says Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns. Whereas Rice is not a born diplomat--her mannered speaking style can verge on monotony--she has soothed much of the public friction that developed between the U.S. and its allies during Bush's first term. "From the first moment she took over," says a European diplomat, "we've got the impression that this Administration is more...