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...clear leadership, it would draw the heads of other countries behind him. Almost until the very end of the diplomatic duel over a U.N. resolution supporting war in Iraq, many in the Administration believed that France and other countries opposed to the U.S.'s plans would fall under this spell. That remained true even as the war unfolded. "The way to win international acceptance is to win," a senior Bush aide said bluntly in the winter of 2003. "That's called diplomacy--winning." Being certain and strong was also necessary, Bush believed, to keep his team motivated. "A President...
...Regional security experts say a peace accord between Murad and Arroyo would probably spell the death knell for J.I. "It's simple," says Zachary Abuza, a Southeast Asia terrorism expert. "Without their bases in the Philippines, Jemaah Islamiah cannot survive." Murad goes so far as to say Americans can come on an inspection tour of his camps. "We have nothing to hide," he says with a smile. If he really wants peace, Murad will have to ensure that by the time any peace accord is nearing completion, that claim is true...
...Russian-British holding company. But with Sibneft slowly unwinding its merger with the embattled Yukos, Sechin-led Rosneft may be in the best position to buy Sibneft's stake in Slavneft. "If Sechin can pull it off, and if he sorts it out with BP," Delyagin says, "it will spell a decisive victory for Putin. The key point is taking oil under informal but tight Kremlin control, rather than launching a formally state-owned concern," which would scare off foreign investors. The new board chairman of Rosneft, who avoids publicity and contact with outsiders, is a key member...
...help. What do researchers know about patterns of drought in North America? What do they think occurred in the mid-1990s when a big chunk of the West abruptly veered from wet to dry? And do they believe that the current shortfall of precipitation is just a temporary dry spell or an ominous realignment of the earth's climate system...
Clarke is genuinely witty. But what really sets Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell apart is its treatment of magic. Clarke's magic is a melancholy, macabre thing, confabulated out of snow and rain and mirrors and described with absolute realism; it's even documented with faux-scholarly footnotes. When spells are cast (and they frequently are--Clarke isn't one of those stingy fantasists who doles out, say, one spell every hundred pages), they come with consequences of both the intended and the unintended varieties. When Norrell brings to life the wooden figurehead of a captured French ship--he and Strange...