Winners & Losers
PATRICK BAZ/AFP Winners David Petraeus: Eats sweets in war-torn Ramadi; the press swoons. AIPAC: Leads the fight to kill a Congressional bill constraining the U.S. president from taking military action on Iran. Rudy Giuliani: News that the Republican presidential candidate’s law firm lobbied for Hugo Chávez’s oil company hits in February 2007, not February 2008. ...
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Winners
David Petraeus: Eats sweets in war-torn Ramadi; the press swoons.
AIPAC: Leads the fight to kill a Congressional bill constraining the U.S. president from taking military action on Iran.
Rudy Giuliani: News that the Republican presidential candidate’s law firm lobbied for Hugo Chávez’s oil company hits in February 2007, not February 2008.
Polish thongmakers: Go from cottage industry to global business.
Tony Blair: Gets his nukes over the objections of Annie Lennox.
Losers
Alberto Gonzales: For obvious reasons.
Pervez Musharraf: Pakistan’s president/dictator is wobbling, but will he fall down? (probably not)
Bangalore’s strays: The southern Indian city captured 2,000 canines and killed 200 in the past week after two children were recently killed by stray dogs.
U.S. productivity: Down the tubes as March Madness begins.
Dinesh D’Souza: If the National Review doesn’t like his book, who will?
Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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