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Bush "Aloof-Distant"

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  • Former Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff says President Bush was "too aloof, too distant from the details" of post-war planning, allowing underlings to exploit Bush's detachment and make bad decisions. In an Associated Press interview Monday, former Powell chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson also said that wrongheaded ideas for the handling of foreign detainees after Sept. 11 arose from a coterie of White House and Pentagon aides who argued that "the president of the United States is all-powerful," and that the Geneva Conventions were irrelevant.CTV News

  • A German woman missing in Iraq is believed to have become the fifth Westerner abducted in recent days, Chancellor Angela Merkel says. The woman and her driver have been missing since Friday and "we must conclude they have been kidnapped," Merkel said following an emergency cabinet meeting Tuesday.CNN

  • The Vatican on Tuesday published its long-awaited document on gays in the priesthood, saying that men with "deep-seated" gay tendencies shouldn't be ordained but that those with "transitory" tendencies could be if they had overcome them for three years. The official release of the "Instruction" from the Congregation for Catholic Education came a week after an Italian Catholic news agency posted a leaked copy on its website. As a result, the document's contents were already known.CTV News

  • The first major winter storm has hit Pakistani Kashmir, killing two people left homeless by last month's earthquake as aid workers warn it could be the tip of the iceberg. As snow, heavy rains and winds pelted the Himalayan region on the weekend, a three-month-old boy and a middle-aged man became the first confirmed deaths from hypothermia.CBC News

  • U.S. officials told a U.N. conference on climate change that their government was doing more than most to protect the Earth's atmosphere. In response, leading environmental groups blasted Washington for refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, a global treaty that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.CNN

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