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...Fernandez] said it was formal and we need to get together soon to plan our cabinet,” Dasgupta said last night...
Putin has recognized that a missile-defense system isn't a threat to Russia, U.S. officals say; he just needs a prestige-preserving agreement as weighty as the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which Bush wants to scrap. But Bush Administration hard-liners resist any formal treaty that would constrain U.S. power...
...PLANS SPEECHES WITH COHERENT, UNIFIED MESSAGE.) The TelePrompTer is not Bush's friend. Other than in his address to Congress, Bush's voice hasn't been captured by his speechwriters, and no matter how august the setting, smoking out the "evildoers" sounds like a teenager playing a video game. Formal addresses, like high alerts, have diminishing returns. F.D.R. never gave more than four fireside chats a year during World...
...familial environment more rigidly bourgeois than the one Jean-Christophe describes. The two Mitterrand boys weren?t encouraged to take part in any significant conversations and rarely dined with their parents, who were "not the sort to embrace or touch," as Jean-Christophe puts it. Communication was so formal that the family often exchanged information via written notes, and parents ensured that offspring never heard their domestic arguments...
Lunch is a little bit choppier and less formal. It spans a longer period of time. There are poems that go all the way back to my upbringing in the South, and poems that are as up-to-the-minute as poetry...