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...ba href=/anxiety/a/b over midterm congressional elections in November.

Card, as chief of staff, became a target for blame.

In a March 8 meeting with Bush, Card said he thought he should go.

"He's someone who knows that there comes a time when it's time to move on and allow someone else to come in," presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said of Card.

Card's resignation was announced Tuesday by Bush.

Card was replaced by budget director Joshua Bolten, who was given authority to make further changes in a White House staff that even Republicans have complained is tired, insular and lacking fresh ideas.

Appearing with Bush in the Oval Office, Bolten gave no hint about what, if any, shake-up he might order.

But White House officials said no one should doubt his ability to replace Bush aides.

"He'll have all the authority he needs ...

to make the decisions that he feels best, working with the president," McClellan said.

Like Card, Bolten, 51, is a Washington insider whose ties reach back to Bush's 2000 campaign for the White House.

Democrats - as well as some Republicans - grumbled that the new White House boss looked a lot like the old one.

Bush said of Bolten, "He's a man of candor and humor and directness, who's comfortable with responsibility and knows how to lead.

No person is better prepared for this important position." Before being named budget director in 2003, Bolten was Card's deputy chief of staff for policy, a colleague of such senior aides as top political adviser Karl Rove...

...ba href=/anxiety/a/b eased out after interacting with stand-in skipper Andrew Flintoff, who, according to him, was a binding force in the dressing room.

Panesar described Freddie a fantastic captain earlier.

''I got a lot of encouragement from the rest of the team, which helped to calm the nerves and that showed the togetherness we have as a team.

We try to help each other on the field and it's nice to be part of that,'' Panesar said.

Panesar also said the presence of his entire family in the stadium during the second Test at Mohali was the other major highlight of the tour.

''For my parents, seeing me play a Test match near where they were born in the second Test was special.

They came to the Mohali Test, which I think was the first time they have ever been to a cricket stadium, and it was a great experience for them,'' he said.

The left-arm spinner said he is working hard to make a place for himself in the national team.

''I've just got to continue working at my game at Northants, keep working hard and give myself the best chance of playing for England again,'' Panesar said of his future plans.

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...ba href=/anxiety/a/b, fatigue and stress, and in many cases are just as concerned about a service member's homecoming as their safety in combat, according to a survey conducted by the National Military Family Association.

"The welfare of military families is vital to the readiness of our military forces," said Doug Burke, chief executive officer of Defense Web Technologies, a defense contractor that attempts to provide information to military families and co-sponsored Tuesday's event on Capitol Hill.

Full Story Bush Urged to Cancel Meeting with African Leader (CNSNews.com) - President Bush is being urged to cancel a White House meeting with the president of Nigeria after the former leader of Liberia, exiled in Nigeria and wanted for war crimes, "disappeared" this week.

The incident triggered a diplomatic row between the U.S.

and Africa's largest nation, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warning of "consequences" if Nigeria did not hand over Charles Taylor.

Taylor, one of Africa's most notorious figures, was reported to have vanished from a villa in southern Nigeria shortly after Washington upped the pressure on Nigeria to surrender him to a war crimes tribunal.

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