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SHADOWOFHISFORMERSELF:ONCESEEMINGLYINVINCIBLE,BLAIRNOWFACESDISSENTFROMHIS ALLIESANDAN INCREASINGLYFRUSTRATEDPUBLIC
Blair18Dead,
E ver Bineethe summer of2003, when the occupation of Iraq started spinning out of control, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been in steady decline. With his ministers in
open revoItand his legacyon theline, Tony's Teflon has fmally worn off. NEWSWEEK looks at Britain's leadership crisis. Page 32
COVER: PhotographbyPeterMacdiarmid-GETTY IMAGES.
Inger: Photograph by Lucian Read FORNEWSWEEK.
IRAQ:US. troops are losing faith, if not the war 20 U.S. AFFAIRS:Bush plays the
terror card 26
BRITAIN:Labour rebels push Blair toward the exit 32 GERMANY: Berlin is poor,
but seÀl' 40
JAPAN:The country's next
leader is a cipher 42
CHINA:'Red tourists' prompt
a rethink of Mao 48
BUSINESS:Inside the
boardroom baffle at HP 50 SCIENCE:Are cancer hunters on the wrong track? 54 BOOKS:Charles Frazier's
mesmerizing new epic 58
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PERISCOPE 4
PERSPECTIVES 5
WORLD VIEW 19
THE GOOD LlFE 65
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