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...between the two leaders of the past decade, President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Tony Blair, have been prickly at best. Opposing positions on the war in Iraq and on European farm subsidies have at times degenerated into public shouting matches that have been gleefully reported by the national press of both countries...
...view of the company they inherited as a trust whose value exceeded the dividends it generated was shared by the more hands-on Sulzbergers of New York City and Grahams of Washington. "It's not just family ownership," says Alex Jones, director of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and co-author of two histories of newspaper families (the Sulzbergers as well as the Binghams of Louisville, Ky.). "It's a particular kind of family ownership that's nearly miraculous...
...special assistant to the President. Dated Feb. 28 - the day Iglesias went public with his accusation that Domenici and Wilson had improperly inquired about the corruption investigation - it is described in the log as: "Discussion re: telephone call received from Sen. Domenici's COS [chief of staff] re: Iglesias press conference...
...picture, stripped of caption and context, can be made to mean just about anything anyone wants to it to mean - that's why Sean McCormack, press secretary to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, barred photographers from recording the obligatory grip-and-grin at her meeting last week with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem on the fringes of the Iraqi "neighbor's conference" in Egypt...
...Meanwhile, Rice is using a photo opportunity to send a message of her own, Thursday, having invited the press to watch her viewing an exhibition of Iranian art and chatting up the visiting artists at an international center in Washington. "It makes clear that we have no problem with the Iranian people," McCormack says. "We want more interaction with them. It's a great culture. It's a great country and we shouldn't let any of the policy differences between the United States and this Iranian Government get in the way of those kinds of exchanges." The Administration hopes...