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It's a cliche, of course, but the State of the Union address is notorious for being a committee-written document, a tedious laundry list interspersed with fulsome praise for the American spirit and God. But if the speech had some of that feel, it was also pure Bush, as...
Like The West Wing, Housewives is well made but stacks the dramatic deck shamelessly. Its characters - as thin as mica flakes, especially the men - are very affluent, and it's set on Wisteria Lane, a picket-fence never-never land. We don't see women juggling home and career; there...
A woman most famous for divorcing well is about to play TV matchmaker. In a fall Fox special titled Ivana Young Man, IVANA TRUMP will select eight twentysomething guys to vie for a "successful but lonely fortysomething woman." When wealthy men like Ivana's ex, Donald, trade in their wives...
But Krause knows something about loneliness. When he was young, his father battled depression and, later on, behaved like "an adult child," Krause says. "He was tantrum filled." When Krause was a high school sophomore, he began to deeply question "the world that was created inside [his] little house." Questions...
Once Tenet steps down, his acting successor will be Deputy Director of Intelligence John McLaughlin, a career analyst. It is a cliche to call McLaughlin unassuming and modest; it is more telling to describe him as deeply analytical and alert to the ambiguities of his trade. An amateur magician, he...