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...small-group meetings but frequently discuss policy issues in private, often over lunch or dinner. When Rice is on the road, Bush phones her at all hours. On the plane back from a surprise one-day visit to Iraq in May, she returned the favor, reaching Bush in the Oval Office to report on a meeting with Iraq's Shi'ite leaders in which she got them to agree to include more Sunnis in the drafting of a new constitution. "She was charged up," says a senior White House official...
...England, police snared Yasin Hassan Omar, allegedly the man shown on closed-circuit-television tapes who was planning to bomb the Warren Street underground station. The Peabody bust netted Ibrahim Muktar Said, suspected of trying to bomb a bus in east London, and Ramzi Mohammed, who fled from the Oval station after allegedly leaving a bomb. And in Italy, authorities announced they had caught Osman Hussain (also referred to as Hussain Osman by British police), who is alleged to have tried to blow up a train at the Shepherd's Bush tube stop...
...staff Andrew Card learned of the accident while channel-surfing. He phoned the President, who decided to return to the White House by motorcade. A grim Bush scheduled a conference call with the families for 12:45 and at 12:30 was standing at his desk in the Oval Office scanning biographies of the crew members to see which ones had spouses and children...
...first interview with the President, and I expected a simple "Hello" when I walked into the Oval Office last December. Instead, George W. Bush joked, "Cooper! I thought you'd be in jail by now." The leader of the free world, it seems, had been following my fight against a federal subpoena seeking my testimony in the case of the leaking of the name of a CIA officer. I thought it was funny and good-natured of the President, but the line reminded me that I was, very weirdly, in the Oval Office, out on bond from a prison sentence...
...Offer 2250!" But the real heart of the strip began beating on February 14, 1921 when the central character, Walt Wallet, a rotund confirmed bachelor with a sharp cowlick of hair sticking out the top of his oval head, opened his door to discover a baby left on his doorstep...