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...deadline for cracking down on terrorism financiers. Senior aides insisted that Bush had no plans to issue an ultimatum, and Rice and CIA Director George Tenet demanded that the FBI launch a criminal investigation to find out who leaked the report. Meanwhile, every Administration heavy from Donald Rumsfeld to Colin Powell rushed to defend Bandar and the Saudis...
...funny-weird disconnect between his personality and his obsession--and Streep works up a fine, ladylike glow of perspiration stalking him. But the movie ends in a burst of violence that we are unprepared for and don't believe. Maybe it's the film's final joke: Donald's cheesy screenwriting manner winning out over Charlie's. In fact, the mythical brother shares a writing credit on the film. But still, it feels like a desperation move--the big bang that for no good reason blows away this eccentric and often delightful little universe. It's a miscalculation--though...
...dissolved by stalking Orlean (Meryl Streep) to discover her writerly secrets. Or by enrolling in one of the infamous screenwriting seminars given by Robert McKee (Brian Cox). It is certainly not eased by Kaufman's best invention, a completely fictional twin brother named Donald (also played by Cage), who is everything Charlie is not--chipper, feckless, self-confident. For want of something better to do between dates, Donald starts churning out a totally fatuous action screenplay, which, naturally, he sells for a huge sum of money...
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, on the other hand, inhabits the outskirts of Bush’s inner circle, marginalized by his moderate and multilateral views and by a lack of personal rapport with Bush. He’s most alienated from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, whose calls for an expansion of the war—especially against Iraq—recur throughout Woodward’s narrative. Bush navigates a middle way between these two advisers, working both for an international coalition and for the termination of states that sponsor terrorism...
...Washington hawks don't buy that reasoning. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday emphasized the Administration talking point of the week - that the onus is on Saddam to show he is meeting his disarmament obligations rather than on the inspectors to find proof that he isn't. Rumsfeld warned that inspectors might well never turn up any sign of the programs Washington insists Iraq continues to conceal. But if even such crucial allies as Turkey are insisting on UN endorsement of an attack, then plainly the consensus on the Security Council cannot be dismissed as easily as the Defense Secretary...