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...President had privately been telling his staff for days. He had had it with the second-guessing, the postwar revisionists, the nitpicking over a single sentence that he had uttered six months earlier. Bush has been arguing that it is time to go on the offensive, or people will forget why America went to Iraq in the first place...
...coming into being." Is this a good thing? In Spain, where the trend is similar if less marked, Madrid psychiatrist José Luis Carrasco Perera argues that tourists who substitute several short breaks for one sustained vacation "do not disengage sufficiently - the mind doesn't have time to forget the workplace." Alain de Botton, author of last year's The Art of Travel, agrees: "There's a huge advantage in a long holiday, really getting into a place, getting unwound and also getting bored. You realize the limits of leisure...
Thus far Maguire has made a career out of playing dreamy-eyed kids. He was a desperate adolescent in The Ice Storm, an undergraduate wunderkind in Wonder Boys, an innocent Candide in The Cider House Rules, and lest we forget, a secretive high school super-nerd in last year's blockbuster Spider-Man. But don't confuse him with any of those losers in real life. Offscreen, Maguire is as tough as nails, managing his resume as well as any other star in Hollywood. Look at the arc of his career. It's as perfect as the part in Peter...
...couldn't miss Andrew Heiskell. At 6 ft. 5 1/2 in., he was usually the tallest man in the room. His easy bearing almost made you forget it, in the same way he could almost make you forget that he was a towering figure of 20th century journalism. In a career of 43 years at what was then Time Inc., he rose to chairman and CEO of a company that makes a profound and intricate product: journalism. As both a businessman and a journalist, he had an abiding passion that his company should produce to the highest standards...
...Ultimately, both films are indictments of the paralysis in organizations where unchecked power and conflicts of interest are endemic. Forget the murderers and terrorists?the upper echelons of state officialdom are, in many ways, the real villains. For a country feeling increasingly betrayed by the gerontocracies of government ministries, this theme has a particularly powerful resonance. "You can replace the police force with the government," says actor Kotaro Koizumi?whose father swept to power two years ago on a reform agenda and has battled the same demons in reality that his son faces on screen. "The movie shows...