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...movie does not confine itself to its trapped protagonists. Stone's reconstruction of the initial response to the attack--the disbelief, the mad dash of the rescuers to the disaster site, the desperate attempts to comprehend and get organized--is electrifyingly realized. In a movie age dominated by fictional disasters, it is wonderful to see Hollywood technology mobilized to make a worthwhile point, which is, finally, a very simple one: that under the impress of unimaginable chaos, human beings are capable of simple yet astonishing courage and altruism. Even in the place where a movie like this could go soft...
...staff Josh Bolten and press secretary Tony Snow have given the place a desperately needed karmic injection. Bolten has pleased the President by giving him straight talk instead of cheerleading and has imposed a new accountability on the staff. Snow--with his bankerly suits, full tank of confidence and dash of celebrity--went on the breakfast shows last week to defend the pace and results of Bush's diplomacy, scoffing at the impatience of those who demanded "egg-timer diplomacy...
...staff Josh Bolten and press secretary Tony Snow have given the place a desperately needed karmic injection. Bolten has pleased the President by giving him straight talk instead of cheerleading and has imposed a new accountability on the staff. Snow - with his bankerly suits, full tank of confidence and dash of celebrity - went on the breakfast shows last week to defend the pace and results of Bush's diplomacy, scoffing at the impatience of those who demanded "egg-timer diplomacy...
...there in the cockpit of that airplane coming into Baghdad," the President told the press corps assembled on the White House lawn after his dash into and out of the war zone last week. "It was an unbelievable, unbelievable feeling." In fact, George W. Bush's body language-let's call it the full jaunty-was reminiscent of his last, infamous cockpit trip, onto the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in May 2003 to announce the "end" of major combat operations in Iraq, beneath a mission accomplished sign. His public language is more cautious than it used...
...hard to dash into a store and find the milk...