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...repeatedly put him on the front line - his book opens with a long description of a brutal gun battle between two tribal militia groups in the eastern town of Bunia. It then moves to the capital, Kinshasa, where Mealer was posted by the Associated Press wire agency in 2004, and covers the bumpy transition from war to peace. After that, it's back to more fighting in the east, before Mealer embarks on two long journeys across the country, by boat and by rail. In June 2007 he finishes his travels and leaves Congo...
...other, more likely, option is for the governments to press ahead with the Lisbon treaty in the hope that the Irish will change their mind. The E.U. could offer the Irish a protocol to clarify that the treaty does not affect national powers on taxation, and a promise to use the Croatian accession treaty to restore the one-commissioner-per-country rule. The Irish would then vote again on the Lisbon treaty next summer. But that would be risky: the E.U. would appear arrogantly dismissive of the June 12 result, and the Irish could vote no again...
...both share a great love of history," said Brown at their London press conference. History is the judge the two leaders are relying on to decide in their favor at some indeterminate future date. They may have picked up a few good tips from the clutch of eminent British historians - David Cannadine, Martin Gilbert, Andrew Roberts and Simon Schama - whom Brown invited to Downing Street to join the President and First Lady for a hearty dinner of pea soup and roast beef. Another guest at the dinner, Rupert Murdoch, could also have offered sage advice. He presides over a media...
...Times before embarking on his European trip, which took him to Slovenia, Germany, Italy, France and the United Kingdom. "I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone [on Iraq], a different rhetoric," he said. By the time he ascended the podium at the London press conference, his mood had shifted. Asked if he had any regrets on Iraq he invoked, yet again, the ultimate arbiter. "History will judge the tactics," he said. "History will judge whether or not more troops were needed earlier, troops could have been positioned here better or not. Removing Saddam Hussein...
...That iconoclastic take didn't convince everyone present. "The man's going to be remembered as a blithering idiot," said a distinguished British journalist, whose temper had not been sweetened by the elaborate security measures that inflicted a two-hour wait in a stifling room before the press conference began. Similar high levels of security attended the President's final leg of his tour, a four-hour stopover in Belfast. The Northern Ireland Assembly, the devolved government delivered by Ulster's long and difficult peace process, was closed down to ensure the safety of the leader of the Free World...