Word: diplomatics
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...would like to see a woman in the White House; McCain comes off as brave and decent; and in Barack Obama, a biracial son of an immigrant, millions see themselves. "Educated, international-minded Indians get a huge thrill out of Obama," says Shashi Tharoor, a former high-ranking U.N. diplomat and an author and columnist. "He is much more 'one of us' than any previous presidential contender ... An Obama victory would fulfill everything the rest of the world has been told America could be, but hasn't quite been...
...diplomat's bag were several classified documents improperly removed from the main State building. One of the intelligence documents was particularly sensitive, says a department official familiar with the incident. "It dealt with longer-term contingencies and scenarios for the state of emergency: how long could it last, what are the pressure points, what are U.S. interests," the official says...
TIME has learned that those classified documents went missing, for a short time at least. A few days after her flight, the diplomat realized she no longer had the documents. As required, she informed diplomatic security. At the same time, British Airways called State and said the airline had found the sensitive materials. The diplomat was recalled and reassigned, and State launched a damage assessment...
...department declined to comment. Its report found no "serious damage to [U.S.] national security." The diplomat has had her security clearance reinstated. But insiders say the loss of documents was a serious security breach. The U.S., scrambling for leverage at a particularly delicate moment, had potentially shown its hand to Musharraf or one of many political factions trying to overthrow him. Two officials who read the report say it didn't determine who had gained access to the secrets. "One would like to believe that only airline officials saw this stuff," a senior U.S. official told TIME, but that "wouldn...
...Line: Chavez, who considers himself the modern heir of South America's 19th-century independence hero, Simon Bolivar, still likes to wear his red army beret. But according to a recent Chavez biography, he once told a U.S. diplomat that for all his bellicose rhetoric, "I know where the red line is. And I'm not going to cross that line - I just go up to that little edge." He demonstrated some sense of the limits on his power by conceding defeat in the referendum last year when critics had widely expected him to reject it and cross...