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...easy authority of someone who has directed tough men for years under difficult conditions. The doctors got his heart rate under control shortly after the escape but put him on a lifelong medication. They warned him that the experience had aggravated an esophageal condition and told him to quit drinking and taking snuff. As he recounts this, he maneuvers a large wad of Skoal from his lower lip up into his cheek, evidence of a 20-can-a-week habit. "Some stuff you can do without," he says. "And some stuff you can't." On his living-room walls...
...reporters. "Emphatically not." Campbell is the government's other big endangered beast. His fists-first rebuttal of Gilligan may have been justified by the blood libel he thought Gilligan had perpetrated, but it also gave his many critics a weapon to use against him. Campbell told Blair he would quit after senior judge Lord Hutton completes his inquiry into Kelly's death, expected in the fall. On his vacation, starting this week, he will "consider his options," says one Downing Street official. The BBC too may face top-level resignations if Kelly's e-mails and letters and the notes...
...mediator between the Americans and Israelis on the one hand, and the Palestinians with whom they refuse to talk on the other - Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the militants of Fatah and Yasser Arafat. He rules at Arafat's pleasure, and the only leverage Abbas has is to threaten to quit. He has repeatedly used that device in his clashes with Arafat, and he does the same in Washington, warning that unless the U.S. can squeeze more concessions out of Israel, he'll be out of the game...
Hong Kong's leader, Tung Chee-hwa, 66, is under intense pressure to quit. Here are the options facing him?and who may replace...
...Option 3: Resign Tung would have no choice but to quit if Beijing urged him to go. Under Hong Kong's mini-constitution, he must resign if he cannot discharge his duties (because of illness, for example), repeatedly fails to get his policies or budget approved by the legislature, or repeatedly refuses to sign bills the legislature has passed...