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...period is forcing changes. Prepared remarks are shorter, and even brief speeches are increasingly finished by an aide. The Pope did appear to bounce back a bit after his return from Slovakia, meeting with diplomatic delegations and reading most of the text during his Wednesday general audience. Senior aides insist that proposed trips to France, Poland and Mexico next year haven't been ruled out. But the day may be near when the Pope is simply a silent presence. "We are rewriting the entire Roman rite to accommodate his health situation," says the Rome priest. "The question is where...
...Dartboard knows that even Mather House has its diehard fans who insist that the East German train depot they call home is really wicked awesome (and Dartboard expects at least a few rambling/incoherent/threatening letters from a Matherista or two in the name of “House pride”). But Dartboard believes that such thoughts are simply the products of defective or possibly deranged minds...
...entirely clearly defined support role previously occupied by late Sergio Vieira De Mello, the accomplished diplomat killed in last month's bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad. Absolutely not, say the French, Russians and Chinese. The only basis to confer UN legitimacy on the military mission, they insist, is to put the international body in charge of supervising the political transition to Iraqi self-rule (as in Afghanistan, East Timor and Kosovo). Anything short of UN political control, they say, would be to underwrite a U.S. occupation of Iraq - and that's something the nations that opposed the war remain...
...Bush Administration's road map for Middle East peace dead? At the very least, it seems likely to go on a long hiatus. Although Administration officials insist the peace process can survive the resignation last weekend of Mahmoud Abbas as Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, the U.S. has lost the one Palestinian leader with whom it believed it could do business. In response, the Administration hopes to punish Yasser Arafat for undermining Abbas' efforts to assert authority over the Palestinian security apparatus and crack down on militant groups like Hamas. A senior State Department official says the U.S. plans...
Clark, for his part, has promised only to announce a decision by Sept. 19. He would start millions of dollars behind in funding and have to build a national-campaign organization virtually overnight. But his supporters insist the former NATO commander has enough grass-roots support (there are at least three "Draft Clark" movements on the Web) that catching up won't be a problem. They have already raised or won pledges for hundreds of thousands of dollars--enough to pay for TV ads in New Hampshire, Iowa and Clark's home state of Arkansas. And Clark's speeches have...