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Half a year ago, it gave me (and Joe Lieberman) pleasure to hear the most fanatical of Democrats say that they liked Howard Dean, but wouldn’t vote for him because he couldn’t win against George W. Bush. Dean still can’t win (a general election), but the left wing of the Democratic party has suddenly changed its tune...
What is CATE BLANCHETT, far right, looking so mad about? After all, she's the star of Ron Howard's chilling The Missing, his first film since he won an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind. But she has her reasons. One, desperados kidnapped her daughter. Two, her estranged father TOMMY LEE JONES, right (looking extra craggy), who left the family to go live with Apaches for 20 years, is the only man who can help get the child back. And three ... well, The Missing (which opens Nov. 19) is a western, but Blanchett is no cowgirl. "I kept telling...
...Democrats now face--between principled opposition to the Bush Administration and populist demagoguery on the two main issues of this election, the war and the economy. This is a particularly crucial choice for Howard Dean, who wants to build his candidacy past Internet insurgency toward a broader audience. Indeed, Dean's subdued and awkward performance, and his slipperiness on both issues, seemed a rare moment of indecision in what has been a steamroller campaign...
...Democratic campaign is all about Dean--and the Dean campaign is all about the populist temptation. This is the moment when the high and low roads diverge, and last week Howard Dean looked like a man trying to take both...
...Australia is often tardy in owning up to its darker past. One need only look at the Howard government's refusal to apologize to the "stolen generation" of Aborigines to understand that. The detention centers described in From Nothing to Zero are nothing more than convenient oubliettes allowing most Australians to consign refugees to dusty oblivion, aided by the fact that the media are not allowed to visit refugee detention centers. You would have expected protests about that?but there have hardly been any. In a vast, sunburned land where the beer is always cold and the surf forever...