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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart, Jack Straw, were the picture of transatlantic harmony as Rice visited Straw's constituency in Blackburn, England, last week. Their good cheer reflected the continuing official closeness of their two countries--the tightest of coalition partners three years into the war in Iraq despite the opposition of much of the rest of the world and the fact that, as Rice conceded last week, "we've made tactical errors, thousands of them," in Iraq. (She later said she meant it "figuratively.") But not everyone in the British government is smiling. A dispute...
...surprise trip to Baghdad Sunday to help jump-start the faltering formation of a credible Iraqi "national unity" government, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made little secret of Washington's preference for the position of prime minister. When Rice and her traveling partner, British foreign minister Jack Straw, met with acting Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, whom the U.S. and Great Britain have quietly been lobbying against, the tone was undeniably frosty. At one point during the day, Rice took a thinly veiled swipe at Jaafari, remarking that a future prime minister ?has to be able to form a government...
...produce their own brands. Their first choices were a little less refined than mandarin-orange-flavored green tea sweetened with honey. They started Midnight Dragon malt liquor in the mid-1980s and, to promote it, printed thousands of posters featuring a scantily clad woman sipping Midnight Dragon through a straw and a vulgar tagline. Midnight Dragon peaked at 3 million cases annually. In the early '90s, Vultaggio's Crazy Horse malt liquor took off, until protests and lawsuits from Native American groups compelled some states...
...Facing his constituents, Straw said defiantly, "Now some here may accuse me of being immune to the heard realities on the ground in Iraq. I am not. What I am, and I make no apology for it, is firm in my view that democracy will ultimately triumph...
...Adding insult to injury, last month the Pentagon decided to stop using British jet engine technology made by Rolls Royce for the Joint Strike Fighter planes that are still in development - a decision that the British are still heavily lobbying to reverse. With all those tensions brewing, Rice and Straw's personal rapport may be more important than ever before...