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...talked with and what they’ve told me. All of them are very good at distracting themselves. The hardest part often is just to sit down. When Larry Weinstein and I were at the Writing Center, we used to joke that the single most important implement for a writer was a pot of glue: you paint it on the chair and then you sit down...
...immediate aftermath of Sept. 11 it was right of President George W. Bush to temporarily evacuate senior civil servants from Washington to be in position to oversee their regional department offices. But it was overly hasty of the executive branch to indefinitely implement a shadow government without consulting all of the leaders of Congress. The failure of the Bush administration to inform all top congressional leaders of the plan is indicative of the administration’s broader problem with transparency...
...executive branch need not publicize plans for continuing basic government services beyond a small number of key officials who would actually implement them. But it is vital that the executive branch work with Congress to develop a plan to reconstitute all branches of government in the wake of a catastrophic attack. This includes how a new Congress would be elected if the capitol were destroyed and how the Supreme Court would be selected if a number of the justices were killed. In the case of a nuclear attack on Washington, Americans would be quite reasonably nervous about their safety...
Despite the nebulous agenda, E.U. leaders know full well that matters can't continue as they are. It took U.S. President George W. Bush two days to implement an executive order freezing the accounts of 27 organizations and individuals linked to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, notes one E.U. official. It took the E.U. three months to secure the legal basis for the same action "even though everyone wanted it," the official says. And no one wants to revisit the squalid bickering that took place in December 2000 at the European Council in Nice, a summit that degenerated into...
...Zimbabwe Censure E.U. Foreign Ministers imposed targeted sanctions against the Zimbabwe government and recalled an advance team of election observers after officials refused to accredit the mission's head, Pierre Schori. The U.S. State Department said it planned to implement similar measures denying visas and freezing the assets of 20 top Zimbabwe officials. Observer teams from southern Africa and the Commonwealth said their missions would go ahead as planned, deploying about 200 people among them...