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...almost plaintive as he pleads for patience with Iraq's fledgling democracy. Last week he showed off a gift he received from President George W. Bush, a gold-foil-covered box containing a worn, leather-bound 19th century copy of the Federalist papers. Al-Jaafari has read the book in translation and cites the extensive debates over the ratification of the U.S. Constitution as a reason that the Iraqi democracy should not be rushed. When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited on Nov. 11, he told her he didn't want to have to "start at the beginning...
...that's O.K. by him. He has a cheerful yellow house in a leafy part of Brooklyn, N.Y., where neighbors took lasagna when his fiancé Michelle Williams (see box) gave birth to daughter Matilda Rose a few weeks back and where he and his family have been chased by paparazzi only once. He wants more kids. He wants to take Matilda to the beachside home he bought in Sydney, although he dreads the "long lenses looking at your butt as you come out of the ocean...
...Amid all the punditry, grandstanding and technical talk?the WTO has a language of its own that includes arcane concepts such as "Swiss coefficients" and "amber box support" (don't ask)?it's easy to lose sight of the big question: Does it really matter if the Hong Kong talks sputter and the Doha Round fails? The global economy, after all, has been humming along nicely under the old rules, which date back to the Uruguay Round in 1994. Since the U.S. bounced back from its post-9/11 slide, world economic growth has been more buoyant than...
...Social Contract” and not reconsider the petty tyranny of the Undergraduate Council.Reading Rousseau’s autobiographical “Confessions” was a long, hard slog, but the hours spent reading “Restless Genius” simply disappeared like a box of Lindt chocolate truffles. Here we have a good biography—a National Book Award finalist, no less—on a fascinating subject. Those who have a passing acquaintance with his life story should refresh their memory, and those who do not should get acquainted. —Staff writer Joseph...
Loeb Mainstage. Nov. 18 and 19. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $12/10/8. Whatever else one may think about Tony Kushner’s dramatization of the fall of Communism in Russia, the punctuation of its title is certainly unexpected. After all, whatever the play’s oft-discussed “spiritual genius of the Slavic people” actually is—suggested answers include sorrow, vodka, and the motherland—it’s pretty clear that it’s not the kind of joyful exuberance that requires...