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...Pakistan, escaped a deadly attack on her convoy in Karachi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the ruling Congress Party's leader, Sonia Gandhi, personally called Bhutto to express concern. Yet publicly, India's stance has been reticent. Maintaining a silence while Washington waves sticks and carrots at its wayward prot?g? serves India's purpose just as well. Last week's visit to Pakistan by Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was followed with much interest in India. Some analysts saw his meeting with Lt. Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani, tipped to be the next army chief, as preparation for what would follow...
...Once described as having 20 IQ points on everyone else in Washington, Zoellick is widely regarded as brilliant, extremely hard-working, frequently difficult to work with and keenly interested in politics. He started in the Reagan era as a prot?g? of Jim Baker's at the Treasury Department and followed Baker to the State Department during the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush. During those four years, Zoellick was a behind-the-scenes architect for the reunification of Germany, the expansion of NATO and many of the complex negotiations that attended the end of the Cold...
...highly unusual. Though Attorney General Alberto Gonzales insisted to Congress that "I would never, ever make a change in a U.S. attorney position for political reasons," critics were outraged at the December dismissals, among them the firing of an Arkansas U.S. attorney to make way for Timothy Griffin, a prot?g? of White House political guru Karl Rove. The outcry forced Griffin to withdraw. Gonzales' top deputy later claimed the firings were necessary because of "performance-related" issues. But it was later revealed that all but two of the dismissed prosecutors had won outstanding evaluations for competence...
...even the order in which politicians enter a room are scrutinized for clues they might offer about who's winning and who's losing in the power struggles. Such augury has been on the rise since last month's announcement that Shanghai's Communist Party Secretary Chen Liangyu - a prot?g? of Jiang - had been dismissed from his post for allegedly misusing hundreds of millions of dollars from the city's pension fund. Chen's removal and the detentions that have, in its wake, ensnared other power-brokers believed to be allies of Jiang, have fueled theories that that President...
...unity program being pursued by Maliki has plenty to make both the U.S. and the Shi'ite parties uncomfortable, and managing the political fallout will be a major challenge. He'll need to convince Iraqis, few of whom have a positive view of the U.S., that he's no prot?g? of Washington. And he'll need to depend on the Bush administration's reluctant recognition that no matter how distasteful to Americans, his national unity program is their last best hope in Iraq...