Word: antiwar
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Bush and his war council are dismissive of the idea that public opinion matters on a question as momentous as this. Asked last week what he thought of the size of the antiwar demonstrations, the President scoffed that worrying about that would be like "deciding, well, I'm going to decide policy based on a focus group. The role of a leader is to decide policy based upon the security--in this case, the security of the people." And yet while they are sensitive about acknowledging it, Bush's advisers are watching public sentiment carefully. A month ago, a senior...
Perhaps the answer, echoed by millions of antiwar demonstrators across Europe, is as old as international politics itself. Perhaps Schroder, Chirac et al. have become too uncomfortable with Gulliver Unbound, with a giant whose strength is no longer stalemated by the Soviet Union. They may see America's power play, let alone its triumph, in the Middle East as a greater evil than Saddam and his weapons of Armageddon. If so, the name of the game is to put the ropes back on Gulliver--to constrain and contain him. Or: "Let's all gang...
...working on a movie together, a comedy called Why Men Shouldn't Marry, and now they aren't. The rest is for a judge to decide. Penn claims that Bing--whose credits include fathering Elizabeth Hurley's baby--called off the production because of the actor's high-profile antiwar activism, and he's suing Bing for $10 million. Penn calls it "blacklisting." Bing calls it "civil extortion," and he is filing a countersuit for $15 million that describes Penn as "crazy and irrational...
...chief inspector has designed his missile demand as a crucial test of Iraqi compliance with UN disarmament demands, which comes in a more crucial week for the Bush administration's efforts to win UN authorization for war. Buoyed by the strongly antiwar tilt of public opinion in Europe and beyond, France, Germany and Russia continue to resist moves to ditch the inspection process and authorize an invasion. But for domestic political reasons, even such staunch Bush allies as Britain's Tony Blair and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi have pressed Washington to seek a second UN resolution before going...
...cable TV holdings. Rutelli smells a backroom deal and vowed to begin a parliamentary battle to force the ruling center-right majority to put some teeth into its proposed conflict advisory board. Berlusconi's running of the state-owned RAI network has drawn the harshest criticism. The Feb. 15 antiwar march in Rome, which drew more than a million people protesting the Prime Minister's pro-U.S. position, was not covered live as is usually the case for rallies of such importance. The decision again spotlit RAI 's troubled board, whose seats are traditionally divvied up among majority...