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...occupation on Israel's own terms. Abbas has clung to the increasingly fanciful idea that by calming the situation in the West Bank and Gaza, he could persuade the U.S. to nudge Sharon-or better still, a new Labor government-to pick up final-status talks where his predecessor Ehud Barak had left off. But Sharon's unilateral moves drew applause in the U.S. and Europe, and rendered the Abbas leadership, in a word, unnecessary...
...remarried Catholics. Levada, who has Ratzinger's old job as the Vatican's top doctrinal official, politely told Tosatti he was reaching. "I hadn't even considered it before your question," he said. Though he has already said that he plans to issue far fewer documents than his predecessor, one might expect a future Benedict encyclical to address emerging questions in the field of bioethics, a topic he's raised several times in public remarks since his election last April. The old caricature of the "panzer cardinal" may indeed be fading, but the Pope's opponents will no doubt have...
...court to the right. After Chief Justice John Roberts joined Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas in a minority dissent in last week's decision upholding Oregon's right to enact a law legalizing doctor assisted suicide, court watchers now believe Roberts will be every bit as conservative as his predecessor, Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Which means Alito's replacement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has the potential to move the court dramatically to the right. Unfortunately for Democrats, the argument that Bush would soon move the Supreme Court in that direction didn't help them in the 2004 election...
...five years, President Bush has already challenged up to 500 provisions, according to one tally--far, far more than any predecessor. But more important than the number under Bush has been the systematic use of the statements and the scope of their content, asserting a very broad legal loophole for the Executive. Last December, for example, after a year of debate, the President signed the McCain amendment into law. In the wake of Abu Ghraib, the amendment banned all "cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment of U.S. military detainees. For months, the President threatened a veto. Then the Senate passed...
...surprising election victory last June over Ayatollah Khameini's preferred candidate, Ahmedinajad has been assailed from two sides: the Old Guard of clerics who backed the candidacy of former President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani and mistrust Ahmedinajad as a young upstart; and the Reformers who had rallied around his predecessor, Muhammad Khatami, and don't like his revivalist radicalism...