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"Die Hard With a vengeance" wisely keeps some of the formula that makes its predecessors so wonderful, but still introduces enough new twists to make itself independent (it even has an elevator sence of its own). The movie brings back John Clan (Bruce Willis), veteran New York detective and hero...
The war was not even about Vietnam. It was a protracted battle of the cold war, fought to block the extension of communist power in Asia. The U.S. commitment to South Vietnam was sealed in 1954 when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles went to Geneva for the nine-delegation...
The remarkable thing now about the American involvement in Vietnam is that it was not remarkable then. It reflected a mainstream consensus that if South Vietnam fell to communism, then other dominoes like Thailand, Malaysia, even Indonesia could be next. Dulles' successors believed that they were following the lessons of...
For Gingrich, the New Year brought a barrage of activity as aides fluttered around making preparations for the triumphant entry into the capital. The two days before the swearing in would be packed with meetings and dinners, culminating on Tuesday with a farewell breakfast sponsored by supporters at a school...
The furniture of novel writing clutters chapters that might otherwise explain what happened. It is simply irritating, for a reader trying to understand the murk of the Suez crisis, to be patronized by docudrama as characters dash on- and offstage costumed as a paratrooper, a general, an intelligence operative, their...