Tn the year since she became the European Union's foreign-policy chief, Cathy Ashton has developed an impressive line in rebuttal. Didn't rush to Haiti after its earthquake? "I don't want to be a disaster tourist." Wasn't at September's launch in Washington of new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks? "I chose, rather than being in the second row on the White House lawn, to be at the heart of our discussions in China." Not big enough to stop the traffic? "My job is to keep traffic moving. I'm not interested in the limelight."
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