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...force. The world had lost patience with white rule in South Africa and had placed its faith in a man whom no one had seen in decades. The man who emerged was unbowed but also unsophisticated about modern media. (On that first day, he thought a furry TV boom mike was a weapon.) By the time I met Mandela in 1992, he was savvy about his image and knew that he had to banish any public bitterness to win racial reconciliation in his divided land. During what he called his "long, lonely, wasted years" in prison, he never doubted that...
...late December 2001, chief presidential speechwriter Mike Gerson made a simple request whose repercussions would be felt around the world. "Here's an assignment," he told his colleague David Frum. "Can you sum up in a sentence or two our best case for going after Iraq?" President Bush had yet to decide to target Saddam Hussein, but he was moving in that direction and wanted a rationale for overthrowing Saddam in his State of the Union address. As Frum wrote later in his book, The Right Man, "I was to provide a justification...
...anti--U.S. troops, and every new decision poses a threat to ideological unity. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, for instance, has conceded that it failed to stop the war and has shifted its campaign toward ensuring minimal Iraqi casualties. This doesn't jibe with the view of Mike Zmolek, outreach coordinator for the Washington-based National Network to End the War Against Iraq. "We could hope for a quick conflict with few casualties," says Zmolek, "but that would play into the Administration's strategy...
...think Harvard’s going to do a lot of damage in the NCAAs,” Cornell coach Mike Schafer said. “They’ve got a great hockey team...
...this point, the Iraq TV interviewer, who seems to be in green military uniform (but whose face is off camera), begins asking the soldier questions. As he puts the Iraq TV mike to the soldier's mouth, the interviewer applies his thumb and forefinger to the soldier's head to steady it for the camera. Then to make his face more visible, the interviewer uses his hands to lift the soldier's head up, and eventually the soldier sits up on his own steam. He appears relatively calm and the questioning goes like this...