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...rosy claims can only rise. Blair's problem is that nowhere in public services has there been the sharp, widely felt surge in quality of life of the sort that Rudolph Giuliani's crime crackdown brought to New York. In last week's speech, Blair offered a tangled road map out of these difficulties, amounting to slightly greater local control of public services, layered in dire warnings about the Conservatives - not that they yet stand any chance of beating Labour. A major rethink of core strategy is just not in the cards. A Blair aide says, "He's not thinking...
...response to pressure from European and Arab allies who openly or tacitly backed the U.S. on Iraq but needed political cover. And after the war, President Bush made good on his promise. Many saw the document as deeply flawed. For one thing, despite being referred to as a "map," it fails even in the most general terms to specify the boundaries of the two-state separation that is its ostensible destination. But it does contain essential declarations of principle and, even more importantly, signals a new era of engagement by the only outside power capable of significantly influencing events...
...National Security Adviser, rejected the idea. But in the Oval Office, King Abdullah and Muasher appealed directly to the President. The parties needed a guide, Muasher told Bush, to reach the goals laid out in his speech. "Sounds like a good idea to me," Bush replied. Suddenly the road map was born...
...road map in itself was nothing new. What was new was Bush's personal involvement. As his advisers wrote and rewrote each draft, the President steadily increased his engagement with and understanding of the issues. When he publicly backed the text of the road map last December, Bush, who once seemed to want nothing to do with the peace process, became inexorably linked to it. Says a former Administration official: "At first, it was basically the Jordanians saying 'You're going to war in Iraq, and we're going to help you, and we need this to cover...
...were strewn everywhere. She found a box of AK-47 ammunition and six touch-tone phones with labels reading HEALTH MINISTRY and REPUBLICAN GUARD. TIME visited Yunis' home, which sits across from a church in the graceful neighborhood of al-Mansur. On close examination, the handwriting on the military maps Yunis says she discovered in the house match those on the map behind Saddam on Iraqi TV. The furniture, curtains and layout of the room are identical to the room in which Saddam met with his Cabinet. "I could tell the President had been here," Yunis says...