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...bicentennial of his re-election as President, Jefferson still intrigues Americans for another reason: his tantalizing inner complexity. The tall, soft-spoken Virginia squire who loved fine wines and whose enormous book collection became the core of the Library of Congress was no unfeeling, detached egghead but a passionate, somewhat elusive human being. When his wife Martha died in 1782, he wrapped a lock of her hair with a scrap of paper containing an excerpt from the couple's favorite novel, Laurence Sterne's comic masterpiece, Tristram Shandy, and stashed the token in his desk. Four years later, while serving...
...army is only one third of the size it had been projected to have achieved by this point, and police training and capability is seriously lacking. U.S. efforts, possibly assisted by NATO, will be intensified in coming months. But Allawi has some ideas of his own that are somewhat at odds with the script followed by the U.S. over the past year. He has been fiercely critical of Bremer's decision last year to summarily dissolve the Iraqi military, and has said he plans as quickly as possible to reverse its effect by quickly remobilizing and rearming some divisions...
...further skew the balance of power away from the Commission and toward national governments. "That's the long game people are watching, not the Commission President," says the diplomat. The short game matters, though. Delors ended up stronger than his German and French promoters had intended; Prodi perhaps somewhat weaker. Given the challenges ahead, the new compromise candidate - whether Barroso or another dark horse - will need to demonstrate a formidable set of skills and a very thick political skin of he wants to go down as more of a Delors than a Prodi...
...subplot, one that echoes the overall polarization of the electorate. Among Catholics who consider themselves very religious, Bush enjoys a 23-point majority; among those who say they are not very religious, Kerry leads by more than 46 percentage points, and among those who say they are somewhat religious--a group nearly as big as the other two combined--Bush held a statistically insignificant 47%-43% lead...
...addition to the renown Zakrzewski has garnered for her musical talent, amongst her friends and social circles she has also become somewhat of a style icon...