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...Langella and Sheen (and Morgan) repeat their roles in the Ron Howard movie version opening today. Both the movie and the interviews (now available on DVD as Frost Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews) are essential evocations of a unique moment in American history - when the only President ever to resign his office sat down for his own TV inquisition. (See pictures of TIME's Watergate covers...
...much trouble as it cures." I'm just not convinced that if I could accio beer my life would not be significantly easier. But that may be because I still haven't absorbed all the wisdom Rowling has to offer. For example, I still find it hard to resign myself to the reality that this may be the last fresh taste of the Potterverse we ever get, outside of fan fiction. In fact you could read the last story, "Three Brothers," not just as a fable about learning how to let go of life, but also about learning...
...exposes a nation's structural weaknesses. The most obvious problems were the inability of the central and state governments to anticipate the terrorist attack and to respond adequately once it had begun. Home Minister Shivraj Patil, in charge of internal security at the central government, was the first to resign. He has been under intense criticism for months, the pressure mounting with each new bombing elsewhere in the country. There have been at least 10 major blasts over the past 18 months, the most recent one in Assam. Two Maharashtra state officials fell next: Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who took...
...jets last month to beg for money. Then, in two hearings before the banking committees, the three appeared to blame everyone but themselves for their current predicaments. Two of the three refused to give up their salaries, and a few Congress members openly called for all three CEOs to resign...
...siege of Mumbai may be over, but the political casualty count is mounting. As senior ministers resign their posts in the face of public outrage over what many see as the authorities' inability to protect the country from terrorist attacks, India's political parties are girding themselves for an election year that promises a bruising battle over security. The local media may have branded the storming of some of Mumbai's most iconic sites as "India's 9/11," but the nonpartisan unity displayed by U.S. politicians in the wake of the 2001 attacks is nowhere to be seen in India...