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...Have you followed Barack Obama's clothing at all? There's not that much to follow. [Laughs.] I think the man sleeps in a suit! I'm starting to wonder...
...addition to your writing, you have also acted in plays and conducted one-man performances. What form of artistic expression is the hardest for you? Which one is your favorite? When I perform, doing monologues and what have you, it's very ephemeral and very athletic. It has a different feeling. It's never really captured or recorded. That's kind of fun and thrilling. Writing is slightly more fixed in time, but it's the most difficult. In terms of a preference, they appeal to me in different ways. Performing is so social, and writing is so solitary...
...Peter Gumbel neatly portrayed events leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Key to this was the role of Mikhail Gorbachev at the helm of Soviet affairs. One wonders why a man of Gorbachev's stature fails perhaps to garner as much critical acclaim as his contemporaries in the West. It probably has to do with his complicated ideological position, as both the leader and the reformer of the Marxist Soviet state. Eclecticism was the hallmark of his thinking and politics. Today the world needs more leaders who bridge differences rather than...
...enjoyed your issue about 1989 being the significant year that it was. But I am surprised about one thing: the ousting and demise of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania was totally ignored. I thought that was a very important event from that year. He was a man who had ruled harshly for nearly 25 years and the end of his dictatorship was one of the main turning points for freedom in Eastern Europe. Robert Cobb, Auckland, New Zealand...
...against the U.S. in a David and Goliath-style imbroglio that could damage diplomatic and economic relations between the two for years to come. On one side, the U.S. Department of Justice is accusing Swiss banking giant UBS of helping wealthy Americans hide billions of dollars from the tax man and insisting that the bank reveal their identities. On the other, the Swiss government is threatening to step in to protect the country's famous secrecy laws. The two have until Aug. 3 to come up with an agreement - or continue the fight in court...