Word: turfing
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...task of keeping peace within the worldwide communion will fall to its spiritual leader, Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury. Though the Archbishop does not have the authority of a Pope, he is primus inter pares. Williams narrowly evaded a rift over a gay but celibate bishop on his home turf in July, when that bishop-appointee, after meeting with the Archbishop for six hours, declined the office, citing concerns about church unity...
...FOLL0WING THE MONEY Ever since 9/11, the fight over turf has been peaceful compared with the fight over money. While people often think the CIA director controls a vast intelligence empire, his realm pales in comparison with that of the Secretary of Defense. The CIA administers only about 15% to 20% of the annual intelligence budget. The rest is in the hands of the Pentagon, which has long had the final say over where the satellites go to spy and where the eavesdropping ships drop anchor and listen. But just when it makes sense to give the CIA director more...
While Baghdad burned, American officials in Iraq squabbled over familiar Washington commodities: turf and money. Adams says members of Garner's team wanted to pay former Iraqi soldiers to perform cleanup and security tasks and were stunned when Bremer told them that was not going to happen (a decision he reversed, in part, after a month of turmoil). Garner's 200-member Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq found itself unable to exert authority over the activities of the 146,000 soldiers in Iraq, let alone Iraqi civilians. And part of the problem was Garner himself...
Have we finally reached that small, rocky piece of political turf where Tony Blair stands up to George W. Bush and publicly says, "No more"? Britain hopes so. With Blair heading to Washington this week to address a joint meeting of Congress, a rare honor for a foreign leader, the entire British political establishment - Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat - united last week to pressure the Prime Minister into doing exactly that. The reason: the Pentagon's announcement that two Britons held for months at Camp Delta, the U.S. military prison for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...
...senior U.S. official says, "there's a good deal of concern at the State Department" about rising British bad feeling, not least because "Blair's support has been so noteworthy that they'd like to bend over backward to help." But Guantánamo is the military's turf, "and they couldn't give a rip," says one U.S. diplomat - London wasn't even given advance notice of the decision to try Abbasi and Begg in Guantánamo. Luigi Manconi, a former Italian senator who now heads the human- rights watchdog A Buon Diritto, thinks the Pentagon...