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...Klein thinks Clinton's book will usher in "a brief return to the noxious '90s, a brouhaha for which not many people are nostalgic." This is a clear example of a writer's getting carried away by his powers of alliteration. Everybody I know is nostalgic for the '90s, but maybe people like us, who come from the L.A. ghetto, don't count. When Bill Clinton dies, the streets of Washington will be thronged with weeping, praying mourners. But they won't be like the people who watched Reagan's funeral procession. Many of Clinton's mourners will be people...
...former President - and who spent much of the '90s spreading vicious rumors about him - should follow Clinton's lead and seek counseling as well. Surely they have demons of their own to overcome. Quentin Dunne Sherman Oaks, California, U.S. Joe Klein thinks Clinton's book will usher in "a brief return to the noxious '90s, a brouhaha for which not many people are nostalgic." This is a clear example of a writer getting carried away by his powers of alliteration. Everybody I know is nostalgic for the '90s, but maybe people like us, who come from the L.A. ghetto...
...that their rivals on the night were the Under-21s of the United States. England-Argentina clashes will always call forth bitter memories of their 1982 war over the Falkands Islands, for example, and a bitterly contested World Cup qualifier between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 sparked a brief military confrontation between the two countries...
Iraqis are desperate for an end to the car bombs, gun battles, kidnappings and assassinations that make life in Iraq a fearful hell. Winning "that game" is Job One for Iraq's leaders. The very way the new government took power underscores the need. In a brief, stealthy ceremony improvised two days early to thwart feared attacks timed for the official date of June 30, U.S. proconsul L. Paul Bremer handed a blue folder to Prime Minister Allawi and with it sovereign responsibility for restoring Iraq to normality. Within an hour, Bremer was gone, his quick departure emblematic of Washington...
More than one political movie is turning up the Fahrenheit this election season. Among the documentaries, Bush's Brain builds a brief against adviser Karl Rove; Uncovered: The War on Iraq deconstructs the war's rationale; The Hunting of the President, co-directed by Bill Clinton confidant Harry Thomason, assails what it calls a long-term right-wing campaign to destroy Clinton; Control Room looks at Iraq as seen by Arab news channel al-Jazeera. Meanwhile, John Sayles' fictional Silver City gives us Chris Cooper playing a corrupt--and familiarly fumble-mouthed--gubernatorial candidate...