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...says. That has increased the burden on Rice to hammer out a political arrangement that can appeal to disaffected Sunnis and eventually allow the U.S. to beat a dignified retreat. "She's up to her ears" on Iraq, says a senior White House official. Rice was with Bush in Crawford, Texas, when he learned of the attack that killed 14 Marines last Wednesday. Throughout the week, she engaged in around-the-clock phone sessions with the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, discussing how to get Iraq's squabbling political factions to reach a compromise on a draft constitution...
...Will Talk is shot through with the author's quirky preferences and prejudices. He finds that Director Joseph Mankiewicz often "knows more than we do and he's not going to tell us, and I don't like being talked down to." Yet he has enormous enthusiasm for Joan Crawford's "great talent." Appropriately enough, it is these quirky standards that make all 43 testimonies alternately entertaining, poignant and, in the end, indispensable...
DIED. Cheryl Crawford, 84, innovative Broadway producer and co-founder of the influential Group Theatre and Actors Studio; of complications from a fall; in New York City. A tight-lipped woman in a man's world, Crawford staged more than 100 plays--among them Waiting for Lefty (1935), Porgy and Bess (1942) and Mother Courage (1963)--that helped charge American theater with a social conscience as well as the intensely psychological style of Method acting...
...Although many lawyers told [Fisher] to focus on a narrower issue that was specific to the Crawford case in his oral argument, he knew when to be bold,” says Richard D. Friedman ’73, who is Aigler professor of law at the University of Michigan. Friedman assisted Fisher with the case and sat with him during his oral argument...
...good idea of what the rhythms of the court room are like,” Fisher said. “It turned out that I was aligned across from Justice Stevens when I argued the Crawford case. He gave me a smile as the justices left which really relaxed...