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...envoy responsible for forming a new Iraqi government, Lakhdar Brahimi, huddled with aides and dignitaries in the Republican Palace in Baghdad to plot the shape of Iraq's political future. Bad as the past two months have been, U.S. officials believe that if the military keeps a lid on the insurgency and if Brahimi's plan picks up support, they might still be able to steer Iraq toward democratic elections by January 2005. "It's unrealistic to think that in one year everything is going to be settled," Abizaid told TIME in his low-ceilinged office at Centcom headquarters...
...There is a lot more that goes on beneath the World Wide Web than the vast majority of users realize. When you open the lid on the internet, there is an enormous amount of checks and control that are put into place and some of them are secret,” Deibert said...
...loosen the U.S. grip over Iraq's immediate political future remain on track, just how the vacuum left by the planned termination of Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority on June 30 is filled - and how and by whom the security arrangements to guarantee eventual elections and keep a lid on the increasingly worrying centrifugal tendencies - are increasingly open questions. Right now, the old plan (three months old, to be precise) appears to be redundant, but there is no sign yet of any new one. Nor is it clear, yet, what the respective roles of the Bush administration, the United Nations...
...support for the insurgency is the Sunni minority's fear of losing its traditional privileges. Accommodating Sunni concerns, as well as the crypto-secessionist demands of the Kurds, is the major challenge facing Bremer's administration, now that the ouster of Saddam's regime of fear has lifted the lid on Iraq's centrifugal forces. The Shiites want their majority to be decisive, and their perception that the U.S. betrayed them in 1991 when the first President Bush urged them to rise against Saddam and then stood by while they were slaughtered has left little trust among Iraqi Shiites...
...Reserve Board governor, said recently. Sure, China's infrastructure and consumer-spending boom have bolstered demand for commodities. China purchased some 20% of the world's copper last year, compared with 5% in 1990. This demand pushes prices up, but China's capacity is expanding in step, keeping a lid on the price of finished goods. "China works both sides of the equation," says Alan Ruskin, managing director of 4Cast Inc., an economic-research firm. Expect the Fed to apply the brakes if needed. Says Ruskin: "Today companies have more confidence in the inflation-fighting credentials of central banks...