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...plan, according to a senior official. But the CIA was gun-shy. Tenet was a Clinton holdover and thus vulnerable if anything went wrong. His agency was unwilling to take risks; it wanted "top cover" from the White House. The deputies, says a senior official, decided to have "three parallel reviews--one on al-Qaeda, one on the Pakistani political situation and the third on Indo-Pakistani relations." The issues, the deputies thought, were interrelated. "They wanted to view them holistically," says the senior official, "and not until they'd had three separate meetings on each of these were they...
...boycott has its parallel in consumer life across the Middle East, as many Arabs seek to their match their buying habits to the common political view of the U.S. as a self-serving, hypocritical power that threatens the region. And that image alarms not only merchants trying to move American products, but also Washington's policy makers, who see it as a dangerous distortion of the administration's real foreign policy message. That's why the White House recently created an "Office of Global Communications," whose task will be to clean up America's image abroad by, for example, clarifying...
...Upwind of the fire line, a fire is started--usually in the morning or evening, when breezes are calmer--that burns parallel to the fire line...
...spectacular daytime views, Lugard Road circles Victoria Peak with four kilometers of paved path, complete with viewing platforms, picnic areas and physical fitness stops, so you can take a breather while working out on the parallel bars. Take a bus or a tram to the peak; the path starts just behind the Peak Caf?. Ambitious runners who don't mind a thigh-busting uphill hike can link Bowen and Lugard Roads via Wanchai Gap and over to Barker Road, adding another two kilometers...
...playing a guessing game,” he said. “It was preposterously inefficient. It took 12 months of computer time, with several computers running in parallel...