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...tree. But back at Labour, fighting between Brownites and Blairites continues unabated. Bill Clinton - who botched his own handoff to Al Gore - was brought in to admonish delegates to "stay in the future business, and the people will get it"; a sensible warning, but probably insufficient to rein in the discord. The truest note of the week was struck by someone in Brown's inner circle, who should be enthusiastic about being on No. 10's threshold. "I can't figure out why I'm so depressed," says the ardent Brownite...
...Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal next month. She'll also co-chair a conference at Georgetown this week on judicial autonomy. The Founding Fathers "were so clear that ... an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation," she says. That independence is threatened by proposals to rein in the courts and cut budgets "to punish them for things legislators don't like," she says. "This is pretty scary stuff." O'Connor does plan to slow down--and say no more often: "That simple two-letter word would save me a lot of trouble...
...Sunni community, in which the insurgency is deeply rooted - the latest Pentagon polling reportedly finds that three-quarters of the Sunni population back the insurgents. That's why the U.S. has pressed Maliki to offer amnesty to insurgents, to cede more political authority to Sunnis and, most urgently, to rein in the Shi'ite militias that terrorize Sunni communities in retaliation for insurgent atrocities. Four months into his term, Maliki has done little to implement that program...
...substantial support in the hemisphere and around the world, including such nations as Brazil, Russia and China. But the U.S., which charges that Chavez is a would-be dictator in the mold of Fidel Castro - and also fears that Venezuela might thwart the Bush Administration's efforts to rein in Iran's uranium enrichment program - is battling hard to get Guatemala elected to the Latin seat instead. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton - pointing to just the kind of raw rhetoric Chavez used today - has repeatedly warned that Venezuela would be a "disruptive" presence on the Council. Nevertheless...
...Iraqi militaries have been striking piecemeal at an enemy they are not even allowed to name: Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army. And after fierce clashes Monday, it appears that Iraq's government and military is willing to go only so far in their efforts to rein in the powerful Shi'ite militia...