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...Governor of Texas to reform the state's tax code: in the end he feels he lost a battle and won a war, that voters credited him with attempting an impossible but worthy task. "I had earned political capital by spending it," Bush observed in his account of the showdown. He is less likely to cite the searing lesson of watching his father break a promise not to raise taxes and be fired for it. That example is tricky, of course, given that many economists agreed that G.H.W. Bush had done the right thing in reversing course, even if voters...
...Sistani, 74, the domed shrine was saved and the siege of the holy city of Najaf brought to a quiet close. Calling on thousands of faithful followers, Sistani made a momentous arrival from London, where he had been undergoing heart treatment, setting the stage for a face-to-face showdown with Muqtada al-Sadr, the rebellious junior cleric leading the uprising that had subjected the city to 21 days of relentless bombardment by U.S. and Iraqi forces...
...with Presidents and Prime Ministers. Widowed in 1960, the next year she married her first husband's college roommate, newspaper columnist Joseph Alsop (whom she divorced in 1978). President Kennedy visited their home on Inauguration night, and again in 1962 to meet with two Soviet experts just before the showdown with Moscow over the Cuban missile crisis...
...eight days, the warnings of a decisive military showdown echoed across Najaf as fighting raged between U.S. forces and Shi'ite militiamen for control of the holy city. The Shi'ites' truculent leader, cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, vowed not to leave his bunker in the sect's sacred Imam Ali shrine "until the last drop of my blood has been spilled." The U.S. Marine colonel commanding American and Iraqi-government troops battling the stubborn gunmen of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army proclaimed his men were ready "to finish this fight that the Muqtada militia started." Iyad Allawi, the Prime Minister...
...SHOWDOWN Both the U.S. and Muqtada al-Sadr have much at risk in the battle for Najaf...