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...East in a bigger mess. Senior Arab sources in several Middle East capitals tell TIME that they are skeptical about this conference because the Israeli-Palestinian gap remains wide and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, with less than two months to go, does not appear to have laid sufficient groundwork for the meeting's success. "A lot of homework needs to be done, and there's not much time," says an Arab source...
TIME: How did you come up with such a theory and what turned it into a book? Naomi Klein: I went to Iraq a year into the occupation and was researching the intersection between the shock and awe invasion and how it was supposed to have laid the psychological groundwork for [Bush's Iraq envoy]Paul Bremer's extreme country makeover that first summer. And what I was looking at, the tail end of Bremer's stay, was how shock therapy had backfired in Iraq - and by shock therapy I'm referring to the economic policies that were really seen...
...purely symbolic. "I don't think we're actually going to get the legislation done," DeMint said. "But if he could help build the foundation so Americans understand it's a problem that needs to be fixed, he could do a good service if he could lay the groundwork for the next President...
...Faust and Rogers lay the groundwork for the capital campaign, they may also rethink some of the priorities championed by Summers...
...Faust and Rogers lay the groundwork for the capital campaign, they may also rethink some of the priorities championed by Summers...