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Bush and Cheney have evolved. "Over time, the President has grown more confident," a presidential adviser says. "His other advisers have become more experienced and more confident about issues that they might have deferred to Cheney on. It's a natural thing." Some Republican officials said the flap over the shooting might accelerate the normal process whereby Presidents push their Vice Presidents away toward the end, often because the Veeps are running on their own but sometimes just so it is clear who owns the legacy. "No one remembers F.D.R.'s Vice Presidents," says a Bush aide, suggesting the scale...
...religious tolerance and hate speech. Britain last week was a good example of how democracies are struggling to find a proper balance between free speech and social order - an acknowledged hard problem in Western jurisprudence since Socrates was given hemlock to relieve Athens of his irritating views. The cartoon flap suggested that at least some British Muslim citizens would like to upend the whole system. Yet there was widespread support, including among Muslims, for the conviction of Abu Hamza al-Masri, a hook-armed cleric who turned his mosque in Finsbury Park, London, into a recruiting station for al-Qaeda...
...demanding that the paper issue an apology for the drawings. The paper rebuffed the demand. But the tempest might have remained a largely local dispute had Prime Minister Rasmussen not compounded the editors' intransigence by refusing to meet with the ambassadors of 11 Muslim countries to discuss the cartoon flap. "This was a major mistake," says Denmark-based Bashy Quraishy, president of the European Network Against Racism. "I have never in my long political career heard of a group of diplomats asking for a meeting on such an important subject and being refused...
Yesterday’s announcement didn’t bring an end to the flap over Kennedy’s final club ties...
...pairing of Morris and Beethoven seems incongruous at first. The author of a two-volume biography of Roosevelt and a notoriously sub-par work on Ronald Reagan, Morris has no obvious ties to the music world. However, he goes out of his way to mention on the back flap that he is both a pianist and a “private music scholar” who has been studying Beethoven with 50 years of devotion. These credentials sound about as compelling as those of the ousted director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael D. Brown. (But when Morris discusses...