Juan Cole

Ding, Dong, the Witz has Fled The reaction among World Bank employees at the news that Paul Wolfowitz, their president, will resign on June 30: ‘ “Everyone ran into the hallways and were clapping and hugging each other,” one employee, who declined to be named, said. ‘ Bush earlier today complained about journalists dancing on […]

Bush Admits to Destroying Blair’s Career I just caught some of the Bush/Blair news conference on the adult version of CNN at noon. At one point, a reporter asked Bush point blank if he was the cause of Tony Blair having to step down as prime minister. Now, when you get a question like that […]

Template I give up. The new templates I tried just weren’t working for large numbers of readers. In particular, webtv and palm users complained. For those who liked the new settings, and there were apparently many, I’d just like to point out that if you use Firefox you can set the font, size, etc. easily […]

New Template Whenever I have changed my template it has been traumatic for some readers, and I deeply apologize. Some are complaining about the font size being too small. I will try to fix that. But, in this day and age you don’t need me to fix it for you. In I.E. go to “view” […]

Wolfie Soprano Paul Wolfowitz pleaded his case before the executive board of the World Bank on Tuesday. The Bush administration continued to try to keep him in office. Why? Why try so hard? It is clear that Wolfowitz does not have the confidence of his staff, and could not possibly hope to be an effective […]