Word: antiwar
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...hires you," complains Patti Davis. So the President's daughter decided to become her own boss by turning writer. The result is Home Front (Crown; $15.95), to be published in March, a reflective novel about a 1960s college student who defies her politician father to become involved in the antiwar movement. Davis, 33, who co-wrote the book with Novelist Maureen Strange Foster, admits that some of the story is autobiographical. "I used kernels of truth and experience," she says, "and embellished the rest." Davis found fiction such a snap that she has already begun a second novel...
...Tony Blair thought his re-election would put the Iraq war behind him, George Galloway is determined to prove him wrong. The newly elected M.P. for the antiwar, socialist Respect party has called the collapse of the Soviet Union "the biggest catastrophe of my life"; has told Saddam Hussein, "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability"; and was expelled from the Labour Party for - among other reasons - saying Blair and George W. Bush had "attacked Iraq like wolves." Last week his rhetoric served him well when he trounced a U.S. Senate committee that had accused him of profiting...
...starting to hurt Blair in the polls. The memo proved he had not defied the legal advice or lied about it, but it did suggest he had not fully leveled with Parliament or the public about the perils of invading Iraq. Labour voters were suddenly draining away to the antiwar Liberal Democrats - twice as many as were switching the other...
Their dilemma is this: How do you make an antiwar war movie? How, in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, and with the dispute over Jerusalem still roiling Israeli-Palestinian tensions, do you create a film that both explains and criticizes Christian Europe's invasion and occupation of Jerusalem almost a millennium ago? Scott's implicit answer: the way a porcupine makes love. Very carefully...
...increasingly popular with a public frustrated by the prospect of a decline in Japan's global stature. Almost without exception, these neocons consider World War II to be ancient history, an event for which they bear no direct responsibility or guilt. "I think we have a balance between the antiwar education we received as children and the political realities the country faces today," says Hamada, a former deputy chief of defense...