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...chairing at Gleneagles, a bucolic resort in Scotland, came to the ambitious conclusion on relieving African poverty that he has been straining to achieve for a year. After the bombings, he plowed through several press conferences, as well as emergency meetings of a Cabinet committee and eleventh-hour bargaining sessions at Gleneagles from which he secured an agreement to double aid to Africa by 2010. He did it all without putting a foot wrong--on three hours' sleep. That kind of mastery under extreme strain cannot be faked; it shows an almost ferocious resilience at his core...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rush Hour Terror: How Tony Blair Found His Groove | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

...until 2012 (which Brown would not find funny). Of course, what the political gods give, they can take away. Churchill was thrown out of office just as Britain won the war he had brilliantly led. But a U.S. official who saw Blair and Bush go off for an hour's walk together last Thursday on the grounds of Gleneagles thought he understood why they wanted to. "These guys don't really have peers," he said. "There is almost no one who can really share the pressures of staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rush Hour Terror: How Tony Blair Found His Groove | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

...workers said the scene was hellish. Twenty-one people are known to have died on the train, although as the rescuers searched for more bodies in the sweltering rat-infested tunnels, it was all but certain that the toll would rise. The bus bomb in Bloomsbury came nearly an hour later. Prime Minister Tony Blair was notified of the attacks while at the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland, where he was chairing the annual meeting of the G-8 group of leading industrial nations. He quickly relayed the news to the other leaders, including President George W. Bush, and then returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rush Hour Terror | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

...Series of Explosions in London Dozens die as terrorists hit Britain's capital in the crowded rush hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to Work | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

...Instead of the sounds of bus motors and chatty commuters, my buzzing alarm clock started my day. The absence of car horns and sirens that I usually hear on Fleet Street made Friday?s ?rush hour? seem more like Sunday afternoon. Cars that normally inch through congested streets rolled down open lanes. The sidewalks were void of the scents of coffee and cigarettes. Only a handful of commuters were popping into their favorite stores for their morning croissant and bagels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to Work | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

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