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PHILIP H. GORDON SENIOR FELLOW AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION IN WASHINGTON AND TRANSLATOR OF SARKOZY'S BOOK TESTIMONY...
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently said at the U.N. that "to address the worst of poverty, we urgently need to summon up the best efforts of humanity." He called for "the greatest coalition of conscience in pursuit of the greatest of causes." Fourteen world leaders, including President Bush, and 20 major companies joined his call that day. Americans from all parts of our society already have their shoulders to the great global effort to end extreme poverty, and multitudes more are ready to join...
...strain of the extended rotations. Two days before he left on his trip to Iraq, Bush got another one of his Washington briefings, this time from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told him "that families, while strained, were able to be supported," says National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe...
...bonus in this for the President as well: if a close vote makes it to the floor of the Senate, Bush can allow most of the moderate Republican Senators who are up for re-election next year - Norm Coleman of Minnesota, John Sununu of New Hampshire and Gordon Smith of Oregon - to vote with the Democrats. That would permit endangered Republicans to strike an independent pose with voters and still enable Bush to sustain a veto in the House...
...work toward national reconciliation in Burma is for the Security Council to speak out formally," Mrs. Bush told TIME. "Will that work? I don't know. But it's the least we can do." The First Lady also praised efforts of other leaders like British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has voiced forceful criticism of Burma's generals. "It's important for governments to put as much pressure on the military regime to listen to the people," she said. "That's all these protesters are asking." Even some of Burma's normally silent neighbors have piped up. In a landmark...