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...President will stay above the fray of politics until the last possible moment. But that is simply spin, a transparent effort to keep Bush enthroned as the regal war President for as long as possible. In many ways, the campaign that nearly failed in 2000 has never ended. When Karl Rove, the President's celebrated political strategist, drew up Bush's campaign strategy in 1998, he was thinking ahead not just two years but six, to 2004, because re-election is what defines a successful presidency. "This team doesn't have an off switch," says a top party official...
...KARL KNOWS...
...wrote, "and in head to head polls in the months ahead President Bush will at times probably be behind potential Democrats." The party chairman e-mailed the memo--officials would normally deny that such a memo even existed--to thousands of Republicans across the country. For months presidential adviser Karl Rove has been saying that the next presidential race will be hard fought and close, more like 2000 than the repeat of the 1984 Reagan landslide that some pundits have predicted...
...Karl Taro Greenfeld heard first about the vinegar. Just across the border from Hong Kong, markets were reporting a run on all kinds of vinegar as local Chinese sought the liquid in the belief that, when it was boiled, the fumes purified the air and warded off respiratory ailments. Karl, who edits the Asian edition of TIME and is based in Hong Kong, thought this was just another exotic story, the week's equivalent of Japanese schoolgirls selling their underwear or a neighborhood committee in East Java beheading a suspected witch. These dispatches, however, were the first media reports about...
...Iraqis have proved resistant to "reconstruction" efforts in the past. Three years after the British tried to tame Mesopotamia, the Times of London complained about the futility of the project and--Karl Rove, take note--about its impact on domestic British politics: "While [the government] has spent nearly £150,000,000 since the Armistice upon semi-nomads in Mesopotamia [it] can find only £200,000 a year for the regeneration of our slums, and have had to forbid all expenditure under the Education Act of 1918." (The government was defeated by Labor...