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...since aides have claimed to be rebooting the second term so many times (at least three, by TIME's count) that even their allies have lost track. The revamps have come every few months and then been hit by unexpected crises like the uproar a proposal to let a Dubai company operate some key U.S. ports...
...DUBAI Shoppers can't get enough of Prada lenses ($230) at Sunglass Hut in Wafi City mall...
...still hot months later about how she was treated, viewing her as a victim of snobby élitists. To White House officials, Miers is a quiet workaholic who got an inexcusably raw deal. To some outsiders, her name remains synonymous with Administration missteps--a conservative columnist called the Dubai Ports debacle a "Harriet Miers moment...
...Kurdistan is already booming. On the border with Turkey, about a half-hour drive from the DNO rig, it's clear Kurdistan has become Europe's gateway to Iraq. Trucks from Turkey, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany and the Netherlands are backed up for many kilometers. Sea cargo from Dubai is diverted through Jordan, Syria and Turkey before reaching Kurdistan, where it is transferred to Iraqi trucks before proceeding to Baghdad. That route is the only choice: driving north through Iraq from the Persian Gulf is too dangerous. As one flies into Arbil, the sole sign of war is the airport...
...more respectful. Whether or not the President really wants to see spending restrained, lawmakers have shown not the smallest inclination to do so. Social Security reform passed away, and immigration reform is on life support, and Bush's expansive view seems all but irrelevant. Bush was repudiated on the Dubai ports deal, despite the merits of his argument. Lawmakers protective of their own constitutional prerogatives are not meekly letting the White House decide which laws it is inclined to obey...