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Saul Villegas, a director at the Bolivian Mining Corporation (COMIBOL), the operative wing of the Mining Ministry, seems to agree. "We know that we lack know-how and that we need investment to pull this off," says Villegas, pointing out that the government has formed a scientific committee made up of auto experts and representatives from car companies worldwide...
...Obama has established a White House office for health reform, to be overseen by incoming Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Daschle, and one for energy and climate-change policy, headed by former Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner. It's still a bit unclear whether all these West Wing czars will be making policy or managing it, or both, but the Cabinet will want its say as well. "They have a lot of big brains and big personalities with what appears to be overlapping portfolios," says Josh Bolten, who was George W. Bush's chief of staff for nearly...
...Gaza war has shifted the course of Israel's current election campaign. Avshalom Vilan, a Knesset member from Meretz, a left-wing party, said it would have been "committing political suicide" not to support the war. Both Meretz and the mainstream Labor Party did so but said the air strikes should have ended after the first three days to keep down the civilian casualties. "The electorate now has a deep hatred of Arabs, such distrust," says Vilan. "They see us as Arab lovers, and they don't accept that we're patriots fighting for the long-term interests of Israel...
...these die-hard believers in peace, there is a sense of exhaustion, says David Shulman, a Hebrew University professor of Tamil language and culture who is an activist of Ta'ayush, which defends Palestinians from settlers who destroy their olive groves. "We're worn out," says Shulman. "The right wing has sold to the Israeli public [former Prime Minister] Ariel Sharon's foolish idea that there are no partners among the Palestinians." Until that changes - until Israel is prepared to talk to its Palestinian adversaries, and they are prepared to listen - the fighting is bound to continue...
...Bush transition eight years ago to put his own people at key choke points in the Pentagon, on the National Security Council and elsewhere. And his own staff, particularly his longtime aide David Addington and former chief of staff Lewis (Scooter) Libby, ran an almost shadow West Wing when it came to the issues of energy and national security...