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...charter member of George W. Bush's infamous "axis of evil" on account of its nuclear-weapons program, arms sales and brutal human-rights record, North Korea was unsurprisingly targeted by Bush for regime change from the start. That Kim Jong Il - a man the American President once called a "pygmy" - has not only survived, but emerged in the twilight of the Bush era with an agreement eerily similar to the one he signed with Bill Clinton over a decade earlier, makes for a remarkable tale...
...fellow on Korean security at the Pacific Council on International Policy and a former CNN correspondent, Mike Chinoy has, in Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis, written a riveting account of one of the most important diplomatic sagas of the Bush years. His is an impressively researched tale of how the Administration's take-no-prisoners idealism gave way to the reality of what could be done with a North Korea that refused to buckle. Ultimately Bush's approach, says Chinoy, led to "six years of needless brinksmanship, missed opportunities, and the disastrous elevation of North...
...casinos in Macau, success was no longer so automatic. "In an all-out competitive environment, it's really a game of inches," Ho says. "Management didn't adapt for the local market." Unlike in Vegas, where casinos are filled by average Joes pumping coins into slot machines, high rollers account for some 70% of the gaming revenues in Macau. Realizing the mistake a few months after the Crown's opening, Ho decided to instead go after wealthy gamblers by positioning the casino as a haven for high rollers...
...without a false step--an American sphinx, although one whose very presence conveys intimations of wisdom. Sittenfeld takes full creative advantage of that intelligent vagueness, and her novel encourages readers to do the same. I wonder, for example, what the First Lady would make of Jane Mayer's extraordinary account of the Bush Administration's torture policy, The Dark Side, which I read simultaneously with American Wife. It is no small astonishment that Sittenfeld's portrait of the President and his circle made Mayer's horror story more plausible for me: suddenly you understand how George W. Bush could abdicate...
...without a false step - an American sphinx, although one whose very presence conveys intimations of wisdom. Sittenfeld takes full creative advantage of that intelligent vagueness, and her novel encourages readers to do the same. I wonder, for example, what the First Lady would make of Jane Mayer's extraordinary account of the Bush Administration's torture policy, The Dark Side, which I read simultaneously with American Wife. It is no small astonishment that Sittenfeld's portrait of the President and his circle made Mayer's horror story more plausible for me: suddenly you understand how George W. Bush could abdicate...