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...Sharif, a general in Iran's Revolutionary Guard. So why not charge him? Government sources say they don't have enough evidence. "Saying he did it and proving it in a court of law are two different things," says an official. Perhaps more important, the Bush Administration, like its predecessor, is wary of undercutting Iran's reformist government...
...devout Catholic, Arroyo may feel a bit like Job?not an unfamiliar sensation for any head of state of the often-chaotic Philippines. Since being swept into office by a People Power demonstration this January, Arroyo has faced plenty of challenges. Predecessor Joseph Estrada insists he's still the real President of the country; a mob of 40,000 anti-Arroyo demonstrators attacked MalacaNang in May, prompting an unsuccessful coup attempt. There has been criticism of the appointment of her businessman-husband's cronies to key government posts, and a high-profile Senate race that required all of Arroyo...
...course, some would say the bar is so low that he can always jump over it. But the question is, does he deliberately contribute to this underestimation? I think he probably does, and I imagine he does so in much the same way as a Republican predecessor did who was also underestimated. Dwight Eisenhower was roundly derided by the liberal intelligentsia as a Mr. Malaprop, a golf-playing, crony-loving dim bulb. But Stephen Ambrose, in his classic biography of Eisenhower, describes how Ike deliberately mangled the language to put reporters off the track or to get them to think...
...must be counted as a victory. In the end, Bush managed to look presidential. And it may be worth remembering that while President Clinton had become a grandee on the world stage by his second term, his beginnings were somewhat inauspicious: At least President Bush didn't follow his predecessor's example of presenting his European counterparts with cowboy boots...
...lesson from his own turnabout on North Korea. Having come into office with the operating assumption that whatever the Clinton administration did must have been wrong, he had caused a minor diplomatic crisis a few weeks into the job by declaring he had no intention of continuing his predecessor's negotiations with North Korea. Last week, he reversed that position, reportedly under parental guidance. In the same spirit, President Bush may want to recognize that the hostility he faces in Europe is directed not just at his policy positions, but also at the perceived arrogance of a Republican administration, elected...