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Despite the uproar last week, White House officials insisted President Bush has no intention of withdrawing Bolton's nomination. The President stoutly called Bolton the "right man at the right time" to badger a sclerotic U.N. into reform. "There is going to be a more forceful approach in the coming days to make this a debate about the United Nations and not John Bolton," says a senior White House official. "He has rough edges, but that's what you want right...
...exploitative? Sure. But less so than the daytime shows that set up losers like pińatas for moralizing hosts to whack. Intervention simply lets addicts and their families--who are trying to get them into rehab--tell their own stories. Its stark, judge-for-yourself approach proves scarier and more edifying than Dr. Phil could ever be. --By James Poniewozik
...This approach reaches grotesque proportions in “America,” which features Wilkis squealing lines like “Ooh, God, I love to eat / wash it down with a cold one and a pint of Ben and Jerry’s,” all done to an unrelenting instrumental thud. “I am responsible for who I am and what I am,” he screeches. Oh, I see, now I get it—you’re mocking American mass consumerism, right...
...Bridget Jones, whose voice is so achingly human that we forgive and even love her self-absorbed behavior, we have no real reason to like Chloe. Bridget is a modern everywoman. But the location of Chloe’s story behind ivy-covered walls mandates that a different approach be taken—either one of unabashed elitism or serious social critique. We get neither...
...many issues whose surfaces Chloe scratches could be rendered poignant if not tragic, but Krinsky’s approach lacks enough perspective. Disordered eating, romantic failures, sexual insecurity, the high pressure and elitism of an Ivy environment—all these problems are real. The lines outside every Ivy League school’s counseling offices are proof enough of that. And the paradigm of the young female who wants to be sexually liberated while simultaneously desperate to please the males around her is a real one—there’s a reason this genre...