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...seem to like the horses in the starting gate, so they'll have to roam the paddocks looking for better material." Insiders expect Prince Zeid al-Hussein, Jordan's U.N. envoy, to declare, though handicappers note that an Arab might be viewed as insufficiently impartial, given the turmoil in the Middle East. Other possible candidates are former Malaysian Deputy P.M. Anwar Ibrahim and two contenders to be the first female Secretary-General: Singaporean Ambassador to Washington Chan Heng Chee--said to be a U.S. favorite--and New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark...
...people around from her husband's campaigns, chiefly strategist Mark Penn. But by and large, she has formed a team whose loyalties are to Hillary alone. It is an extraordinarily disciplined operation, one in which she does not allow the turf wars and leaking that always kept his in turmoil. But veterans of Bill's campaigns say privately that Hillary's operation is too inflexible and insular for prime time...
...House Situation Room, the consensus was that the next attack would be as large as or larger than 9/11. Officials expected a long period of planning and an attack timed to coincide with roiling events--a major assassination, the start of an armed conflict--that would provide synergies of turmoil and create the perception that al-Qaeda was central to a titanic global struggle...
...Thursday at Dulles airport, near Washington, the turmoil of travelers dumping their cosmetics and other liquid items into trash cans had just subsided when passengers from United flight 923 began trickling into the airport. Their flight was the first to arrive at Dulles from London's Heathrow Airport since super-strict new regulations had gone into effect in Britain in the wake of the thwarted terror plot. Approximately 200 people were aboard the plane, many of them Americans returning from vacation...
...issues with Prudhoe's pipes are not new: a leak in March prompted the US Department of Transportation to order BP to improve its corrosion inspections. Nonetheless, Alaska's oilfields - far from war in the Middle East and hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico - seemed slightly sheltered from turmoil. No more. "It's turning out to be bigger than people thought," says Flynn. "It reminds us how thin the line is between supply and demand...