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...world leader - not just any leader, but a veteran forced to make tough choices about big questions on the economy and Iraq, and to spend close to a decade in office living with the consequences of those choices. Then picture that leader strolling, unannounced and without a visible security detail, into a suburban supermarket in the dying hours of a Friday afternoon, as shoppers, carts piled high, push toward the checkout with the determination of candidates converging on undecided voters. He stands between them and their escape to the weekend, hand outstretched. Eggs and curses: that's the welcome most...
There's nothing like an outbreak of Ebola virus to guarantee screaming headlines. That's largely due to the mid-1990s bestseller The Hot Zone, which described the disease's horrifying course in gruesome detail, leaving many readers to believe that Ebola posed a looming threat to human existence. The truth is, however, that since the first recorded human cases in the 1970s, only a few hundred people have died from it. Of all the diseases you need to be afraid of, Ebola is near the bottom of the list. Unless, that is, you're a gorilla. Over the past...
...April 1993, as Yeltsin was campaigning for votes to win a national referendum to reaffirm his tenuous hold on power, I spent days trying to get close to him. Finally, in the bleak coal-mining region of Kuzbass, I slipped past his detail of beefy bodyguards and stood face to face with Russia's most perplexing figure: the leader who promised reform but who later opened fire on his own Parliament; the man on whom Washington put all of its chips even as Moscow handed the country's assets to a new class of kleptocrats; the man of the people...
...chunks on its major themes of education, child care, industrial relations, federalism and business regulation. The impasse between the Commonwealth and states is neatly captured by Rudd as a "blame game." Terms like "infrastructure" and "skills" are now in common use as shorthand for government failure. Just enough policy detail is being released to maintain momentum. But for now, at least, Labor's new pragmatism and micro policy steps limit the government's ability to slap it down...
...HAVE A REPUTATION FOR BEING FASTIDIOUS. WHAT'S THE MOST RIDICULOUS DETAIL YOU'VE OBSESSED OVER? There are definitely some things I did at Pastis that I now look back on and shudder. For instance, staining the ceiling again and again until it had the exact mustard color it might have had if people had been smoking in the place for 50 years. That now seems ridiculous. And it looks a bit theatrical, which I can't bear. The deliberately faded sign outside Pastis irritates me to no end. I could...