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...Monday morning, hundreds of Israelis milled around the Shalits' protest tent, hoping to meet the captive soldier's father, Noam, a shy, earnest man who swallows his revulsion at the media circus in hopes that it will prod outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert into agreeing to a prisoner swap with Hamas' Islamic militants so that his son will be freed. (See how Hamas is becoming harder to ignore...
...troubled, Alice in Wonderland-obsessed 9-year-old, Fanning gives the kind of heartbreaking performance that makes you want to yank her off the screen and make it all better. Her work is without contrivance. The same cannot be said for writer/director Daniel Barnz's film. It is earnest, but uneven, sometimes getting lost in its desire to be different...
...Administration has a chance to hit the "reset" button before the Congressional debate over the Budget begins in earnest. The rosy forecasts presented with the document will be powerful leverage for those who want to discredit that entire package as the work of charlatans who want to make the results of their recovery plan look better than they possibly could be. Changing the basic assumptions behind the Budget means going through the entire document, program by program, and resetting the investments and returns on the investment for each one. The $1.75 trillion deficit would grow, or some programs would have...
...mobilization to bail out Eastern Europe has begun in earnest. According to MarketWatch, "The World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank issued a joint pledge Friday to provide up to 24.5 billion euros ($31.2 billion) in aid to support Eastern Europe's bank sector." That is almost certainly only the beginning of the process...
...even hiring noted conservative and Bush administration attorney Jack L. Goldsmith. Her efforts to reach across divides were already evident during her time as editor of the Law Review, say colleagues at the journal.They ascribe the success of her leadership as a member of the masthead to her earnest determination to express an idea accurately and to her ability to judge an idea on its merits, instead of through a politicized perspective. They describe working with the future dean as a welcome respite from the school’s political battles, saying she applied a measure of fairness absent from...