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...himself. It's the by-product of every successful person's strategy, which is to figure out what the other person is thinking. "Before they could kill me on Batman & Robin, I said, 'It's a bad film, and I'm the worst thing in it.' You try to defend an indefensible position, you'll look like a schmuck. The guys I dig don't do that. Look at Winston Churchill. He said, 'These are our shortcomings. Now let's get past it,'" Clooney says. He thinks that's all Cruise needs to do. "I talked to him the other...
Meanwhile, about 7,800 miles from Portsmouth, the Argentines braced to defend the British territory that they had invaded on April 2. C-130 Hercules military transports marked with the sky-blue and white colors of Argentina roared back and forth between the tiny island capital of Port Stanley and their mainland base, 600 miles away. The aircraft brought food, ammunition, trucks and members of the Argentine 9th Infantry Brigade to bolster the 2,500-man invasion force. In Buenos Aires, the government made further preparations for battle. Some 80,000 Argentines who had just finished their year of compulsory...
...nuclear-powered submarines, led by H.M.S. Superb, were believed to be in position to enforce the blockade. The Argentines in turn declared that they were ready to sink any hostile British ship that came within 200 miles of the mainland or the conquered islands, and vowed that they would defend their hold on the Falklands...
...Here we're going to have a guy who has made a practice of getting things done by sitting down with Democrats. And so it looks like we're going to have a Democrat agenda regardless of who wins the presidency. I don't view myself as having to defend my President if he's in my party. That...
...When Kerry and his advisers did reach a decision, it was underwhelming: ignore the story and hope it goes away. A few surrogates could defend Kerry in the press, but the campaign itself would maintain radio silence. It was the same strategy they would employ a few months later when the Swift Boat attacks began. The flaw in the approach, of course, was that ignoring the situation didn't mean the stories went away. It just ensured that the Kerry campaign forfeited any ability to influence the coverage. On one side of the rapidly accumulating media accounts was a handful...