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...coffin was when Barry Goldwater said, There's nothing we can do for you. Bush can win back his base with his next Supreme Court choice. He should also get back to his original domestic agenda and his strengths on the foreign-policy side. He should talk about progress being made in Iraq. He has a great opportunity to deal more aggressively with Iran and Syria--not alone, but by marshaling international support. The dynamics have shifted sufficiently that he can deal more cooperatively with the Europeans in getting them on board...
...George H.W. Bush, you raise money--but you also give the symbols of power and the power of symbols: two men, old enemies, who got over it because the needs are so pressing that they now work together. It's a model for unlikely partnerships of the kind that progress demands, partnerships among doctors and pastors and moguls and lawyers and activists and tribal chiefs and health ministers and all the frontline angels of mercy everywhere...
...women, and anything and everything “retro.” Behind the catty banter and constant references to “The Stepford Wives” and “Sex and the City,” Dowd is posing a more serious sociological question: What is progress? And have we achieved equality only to throw it all away...
...fills his single with a Beatles poster, his bicycle, and flyers for an upcoming Glee Club concert. When asked about the differences between his room and the rest of the suite, he smiles knowingly and laughs. His roommates, meanwhile, see the suite as a work in progress. “Sometimes it’ll be 3 a.m. and the kids will be moving everything around to get the right configuration,” says Pham. Tines insists that this has only happened once...
...point that you’re just left feeling bored and vaguely depressed.Steve Martin, playing Ray Porter, wealthy divorcee and admirer of Mirabelle’s, is strangely robotic, and the accentuated age gap between him and Danes just makes the whole affair less palatable. Watching their physical relationship progress, I grew overly concerned for the health of his heart. Happily, his complete lack of chemistry with Danes assured that not enough passion could be generated for this to be an issue. The only question left to answer is why Danes’ character bothered with him at all?...