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...grandchild, and they lived within 5 miles of this man. They never even checked in on him. And that's the stuff that's really staggering - the people who stand at the front of the house, arguing about who gets what and hustling the cleaners about cleaning the mess up as quick as possible. All they care about are smells and stains because they want to sell the property as quickly as possible...
...Middle East may be in a mess, but the Obama Administration's new envoy, George Mitchell, has several things going for him. He arrived in a hurry after the Inauguration, he knows the region from his past days as a fact-finder, and perhaps most importantly, as he told Israeli and Arab leaders, for now he's "just here to listen." That's already a departure from the style of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. According to a senior Palestinian official, "It seemed like Condi would listen to the Israelis and lecture everybody else...
Cleaning Up the Mess...
Meanwhile, union members are growing more vocal, saying the UAW has been singled out to shoulder an unfair burden in the automakers' survival plans. "Management got us into this mess and now we're supposed to get them out of it," griped one union official familiar with the bargaining. "I'm hoping Obama's going to step in." (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...world's problem areas rather than slapdash summitry. The occasion for Obama's visit was the announcement of two special envoys, Richard Holbrooke and George Mitchell, both of whom represent a silent reproach to the Bush Administration. Holbrooke will have the near impossible task of untangling the mess in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a problem exacerbated by recent American inattention to detail in the area. (The deterioration toward chaos in Pakistan, especially, surprised some of the President's closest aides...