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...effect, the board has become Perle's podium. It rarely achieved any notice before he assumed the chairmanship last year, but now his position there lends weight to his public pronouncements. His recent column in the London Daily Telegraph titled "Why the West Must Strike First Against Saddam Hussein" identified him as "chairman of the Defence Policy Board...
Thirteen days later Armstrong took his accustomed place on the winner's podium on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. He had become the first American to win the Tour four times and the fourth rider to win four in a row. By dominating the mountain stages, he proved that the Tour hasn't changed, that he is still the master of this race. "After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever," said Team Rabobank's Levi Leipheimer, an American who finished eighth in his first Tour...
...race from the start, to pull over and allow teammate and World Championship leader Schumacher to win. But it was not for that fix that Ferrari had to pay up, it was for failing "to observe Article 170" of the sport's regulations, relating to the podium presentation. Hearing the crowd's reaction, Schumacher had pushed Barrichello up to the top step, embarrassing Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, who didn't know who should get the first-place trophy. What Ferrari should have been penalized for was the crass and cynical application of team orders. While the FIA "deplored...
Increasingly, Vajpayee's hands are looking far from safe. He seems lost, forgets names--even that of Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh, a longtime colleague. A Western diplomat characterizes him as "half dead." At a rare press conference last month in Srinagar, the PM tottered onto the podium and apparently had trouble understanding questions. He asked repeatedly for whispered prompts from Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani and stumbled over his replies. Says a B.J.P. official: "He is very alert when he is functional. But there are very few hours like that, and being a Prime Minister, unfortunately, is a 24-hour...
...current Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh, and during several recent meetings he appeared confused and inattentive. After a meeting with a Western Foreign Minister, his appearance was described by one attending diplomat as "half dead." At a rare press conference last month in Srinagar, the Prime Minister tottered to the podium?Indian TV crews are asked to film him from the waist up to avoid showing his shuffling gait?to find he had trouble understanding questions, repeatedly relying on whispered prompts from Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani. Even then Vajpayee stumbled over his replies. "He is very alert when...