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...everyone at home that U.S. forces will not be staying forever. Anxious about slumping domestic approval, the Administration has recently been suggesting that troops may be drawn down as early as next spring. But each time the U.S. signals a likely pullout, the political factions in Iraq jockeying to write a draft constitution, due Aug. 15, immediately signal back that they have less incentive for making concessions on issues as basic as the role of Islam, oil revenues and political power sharing. Said an American involved in the negotiations: "The more it looks like the U.S. is gonna leave...
...Wouldn't a parliamentary system also allow you to return to power? My rationale is to help the country, not to be elected Prime Minister or become a ceremonial President. I consider both of those as demotions. How can I write my memoirs if I take on a job I've already done before? And I've challenged Congress: make a law, or put it in an amendment, that previous Presidents can't run for Prime Minister...
...thrilled when she reappeared at the station. I pumped my boss for details and found out her name was Mary Elizabeth Maxwell--but she went by the name Betsy--and that, as a recent graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, she had been hired to write ad copy...
That sentence is the creation of a man named Donald Cammell, who, possibly to his regret, agreed to co-write with Brando a screen treatment, and then a novel, called Fan-Tan, which is about to be published in the latter form (Knopf; 272 pages) a bit more than a year after the death of the once great actor. The book is being blurbed as a "delectable romp" and as the "last surprise from an ever-surprising legend," both claims requiring some parsing...
...admired Mick Jagger movie Performance in 1970)--who did all the heavy lifting on both treatment and novel. Thomson says Brando chatted with Cammell about the story and scratched a few notes in the margins of the evolving manuscript. That is the not entirely surprising way that Hollywood legends write. Or should we say "write...