You'll just love Timbuktu.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

The best explanation for why Condoleezza Rice gave John Botton the U.N. job instead of keeping him on at State comes from Time's James Carney, who says she "didn't want Bolt on freelancing under her the way he had under Powell." Although both Machiavelli and the Mafia counsel keeping your enemies close, veteran bureaucrats know better. Their solution: Get your enemy out of town and into a...