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...White House is now on a survival footing, and Bolten is essentially planning a six-month campaign that will not only prevent a Republican hemorrhage in the fall but might even produce accomplishments for Bush in his lame-duck years. The new chief recognizes that he needs to show results quickly, since aides have claimed to be rebooting the second term so many times (at least three, by TIME's count) that even their allies have lost track. The revamps have come every few months and then been hit by unexpected crises like the uproar a proposal...
...most cynical moments, while lost in the stacks of Widener or trapped in the perpetual daylight of The Crimson basement, I realized that I still had a lot of learning to do. Because, frankly, at whatever college you choose, classes will sometimes be difficult, parties will sometimes be lame, and hearts will sometimes be broken. But when hearts break—whether over romantic situations, disappointing grades, or thwarted career plans—we can actually break wide open and be given the chance to learn, grow and become new people. At a place like Harvard, the people and resources...
...contrast to Hamas leaders, President Mahmoud Abbas quickly condemned the bombings as "despicable" and against Palestinian interests, a position he has held for years. But when it comes to restraining terror attacks, Abbas is - and always has been - a lame duck, unable to enforce his position in his own ranks. Leaders of the very same Fatah movement that the U.S. hopes to have reelected have for weeks been attacking Israelis, with rockets and even at least one suicide bomber, as part of their campaign to undermine Hamas. On the other hand, though Hamas won't condemn Monday's attack...
...Army officer with more than 30 years' experience in uniform. The loudest cries come from the Army, where Rumsfeld and his troops have kneecapped the two men in charge. Rumsfeld let it be known last April that the Army's top general, Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, was a lame duck 15 months before his term was slated to end. "It was condescending and a little bit cruel," says Barry McCaffrey, a retired four-star Army general. A month later, Rumsfeld loyalists made it clear that Army Secretary Thomas White, a former Enron executive who vainly tried to thwart Rumsfeld...
...many people think that's what happens. The darker view is two years of subpoenas and investigations into every act of incompetence and duplicity of the last six years. Nothing moves, because no one agrees and the Congress is too closely split. And the President, fully lame, is powerless to drag it in any direction...