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  Bush's Career Plans for Tony Blair
  The US and Israel are pressuring Tony Blair to become the "quartet's" (that would be the U, the EU, the UN and Russia) Mideast envoy, because he's already done such a bang-up job soothing tensions in the Arab world But Blair might not be interested since President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert would want to limit his scope to setting up a functioning Palestinian state.
  Sir Ian McKellen says, "It is very, very, very difficult for an American [gay] actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality." | story This is exactly what Truthdig's Larry Gross was getting at in "Year of the Queer: Hollywood and Homosexuality."
  The departure "comes at a time when the agency is bleeding top talent, robbing the CIA of institutional memory and damaging morale among case officers and analysts." | story