Word: writs
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...unable, or unwilling to clamp down. Taliban recruitment and training occurs relatively openly across the border, reminding journalists of the movement's emergence a decade ago in the madressas of Pakistan. The country is nominally on friendly terms with President Karzai, but it is also well aware that his writ doesn't extend much beyond the palace gate - and also that the Northern Alliance which dominates the government all around Karzai is closely allied to India, whose influence has grown considerably at Pakistan's expense in the post-Taliban Afghanistan...
...handwritten letters. Both Pakistani and U.S. sources tell TIME they are certain bin Laden is in Pakistan or just across the Afghan border. Some officials from both countries suggest he may be in the tribal areas in the north of Pakistan, in whose wild hills and deep ravines the writ of the central government has never run. But other leads seem to point elsewhere. U.S. warplanes last week dropped leaflets with pictures of bin Laden, offering a $25 million reward for his capture, on the Afghan border town of Spin Boldak, much farther south, and four U.S. intelligence agents carrying...
...American, World War I and World War II). Bush has congressional resolutions authorizing force. But you do not want to go into a (to say the least) controversial war, opposed by much of the world, when protected merely by the fine print. I wish Bush had the full constitutional writ behind him. He is a gambler, of course. He's going to be awfully lonely if this goes wrong. Will he be a hero if it goes well...
...American, World War I and World War II). Bush has congressional resolutions authorizing force. But you do not want to go into a (to say the least) controversial war, opposed by much of the world, when protected merely by the fine print. I wish Bush had the full constitutional writ behind him. He is a gambler, of course. He's going to be awfully lonely if this goes wrong. Will he be a hero if it goes well...
...rumpled lawyers who always see both sides of a question--could hardly be more different from George W. Bush, a man of clenched jaw and moral clarity. Yet the Swede's words now have the sort of power that some Bush Administration officials would otherwise ascribe only to Holy Writ. If Blix says that his inspectors are making progress on disarming Iraq, then the U.S. probably will not soon win broad international backing for a war. If, on the other hand, Blix concludes that Iraq has had no intention of cooperating with the inspectors, then the U.S. might...