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FIRST PERSON: Michael Elliott on why dads also want change...
...Probing the Prime Minister In "What's It All About, Tony?" Michael Elliott tried to explore the personal and psychological motivations of British Prime Minister Tony Blair [Feb. 23]. Because Britons feel it is impossible to understand perfectly what makes Blair tick, they focus instead on other actors in the British Parliament who chat over details of policy until Blair finally works out a decision based on his own sense of what is "the right thing to do." It is our faith in the moral and intellectual machinery of world leaders like Blair that allows them to maintain our confidence...
...continued to cover the story aggressively once Saddam was ousted; by the end of 2003, we had devoted 19 of the year's covers to issues concerning Iraq. Our stories explored every important angle of the conflict, among them an investigation by Michael Elliott and James Carney on how the team around George W. Bush decided to take on Saddam, an account by Michael Ware and Nancy Gibbs on how Saddam might have been fooled into thinking he had weapons of mass destruction, an examination by Michael Duffy and James Carney of how Bush came to rely on bogus evidence...
Before Jan. 27 of this year, Elliott, who is in her late 30s, had never voted. It wasn’t that she is civically disengaged. As the child-care provider for most of the children in her Nashua, N.H. public housing project, Denise is known and respected by every one of her neighbors. Nor is Denise apathetic. Her face still lights up with righteous anger when anybody mentions the Nashua Public Housing Authority. She can recite from memory the grievances of every one of her neighbors: Pat’s son got cut from Medicaid; Gary can?...
...belly. But to truly capture what made Dean exciting, he must grasp the logic of Dean’s campaign. Dean’s passion built a movement that will last long after the 2004 election. If Kerry is to be worthy of that movement, he must understand why Elliott and others like her gave their time and effort to the Dean campaign. If Kerry, and the Democratic Party, learns this lesson, that will be Dean’s victory...