Israeli voters delivered Ariel Sharon’s successor, Ehud Olmert, a decisive mandate to go ahead with his declared plan to withdraw up to 80,000 settlers from the West Bank and draw up new borders with the Palestinians. While the vote for Mr Olmert’s own party, Kadima, was significantly lower than its strategists had hoped, at 28 seats, it emerged as easily the biggest single party with the capacity to build a coalition which can carry through his plans.. Now he will not have the opportunity to beat either James Steelman, who was President Harry Truman’s chief-of-staff and served for six years, or Sherman Adams, Dwight Eisenhower’s top aide, who served for five years and nine months.The minor shake-up leaves in place the President’s most influential official, his senior policy advisor, Karl Rove, as well as all the cabinet members such as the Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has twice offered his resignation only for Mr Bush to turn it down. Mr Card routinely arrives at his office in the West Wing of the White House at 5.30am and often does not leave until 10pm.Mr Card had been hoping to secure the record as the longest-serving White House chief-of-staff. Andy has overseen legislative achievements on issues from education to Medicare. He helped confirm two justices to the Supreme Court, including a new Chief Justice.”A teary-eyed Mr Card said he looked forward to simply being Mr Bush’s friend and added: “You’re a good man, Mr President.”Described as a numbers man and known for his love of motorcycles, Mr Bolten, 51, will receive a two-week crash course from Mr Card before taking on one of the most demanding and exhausting jobs in the administration. But rather than introducing new blood, Mr Bush said Mr Card’s position would be filled by the administration’s budget director, Josh Bolten.
The move represents at best a compromise between Mr Bush, famously loyal to his aides, and Republicans on Capitol Hill who believe that the President’s second term has run aground in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and its self-created problem of Iraq.Hovering in the mid-30s, Mr Bush’s approval rating is the lowest for a second-term presidency since the days of Richard Nixon.

After weeks of criticism from members of his own party calling for the President to shake up his administration and kick-start his stalled agenda, Mr Bush said yesterday he was accepting the resignation of Andrew Card. President George Bush has finally bowed to poor approval ratings and ongoing criticism from Republicans by replacing his long-serving chief-of-staff – one of the most senior members of his administration and a stalwart supporter. The new proposals will also feature at this week’s summit in Cancun of the US, Mexico and Canada.The measure is a mixture of carrots and sticks – the latter centred on a beefed-up security operation along the Mexican border.Far more striking, however, is the effort to sort out the status of the large numbers of illegal immigrants, without whose work – usually in manual jobs and for wages that no American would accept – the national economy might grind to a standstill. Fleischer (the O didn’t stand for anything) in Brooklyn, New York, in 1916.

Co-founded with the painters Halima Nalecz and Frank Avray Wilson, the NVCG aimed to provide a broad and democratic voice, something that the seemingly ?tist Institute of Contemporary Art sometimes failed to do.Many artists had early exhibitions at the New Vision; Peter Blake and the comedian Charlie Drake enjoyed solo shows there. His artistic pantheon was not distant or academic, for in London this ubiquitous and lifelong gallery-goer met heroes like Giacometti, Pierre Soulages or Georges Mathieu, artists that, through their process-led aesthetics, consolidated Bowen’s own belief in “pure painting”.Bowen was a “gallery man” par excellence. He also had stints at Hammersmith, Ealing, the RCA, the Central School and later at the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island. Orphaned at an early age, Bowen returned to England with his brother and two sisters in the mid 1920s. As a result, ministers were offering free tuition up to the age of 25 to sit A-levels, adult learning grants worth £11million to help with accommodation costs, £11million to improve the quality of the workforce by aiming to recruit high flyers from the world of industry to teach and £20million to promote courses to help at least 5,000 women return to learning. “We need a much more honest debate about this issue,” he said.

Extra visas would be allocated for nurses, and for 1.5 million more agriculture workers.But the key provision is the process that would permit illegal immigrants to seek citizenship without having to return to their home country first Critics say that it is tantamount to an amnesty.. Half a century after it sent out trills of outrage and delight from the Royal Court Theatre, Look Back in Anger will soon be causing trouble again. With accomplished performances from McGraw and the superb Marie Windsor, a riveting pace and some neat twists to the story, it has remained a classic example of compulsive story-telling on a minimal budget (it was shot in just 13 days).The film ended Fleischer’s RKO contract, and for the producer Stanley Kramer he made The Happy Time (1952), a family comedy starring Charles Boyer. The package endorsed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday broadly backs the conciliatory approach of President Bush, which has been fiercely criticised by many of his own Republicans.
The move follows a weekend of huge demonstrations by supporters of immigrants’ rights, most notably in Los Angeles where at least 500,00 people turned out.