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...Right?s long campaign to destroy Bill Clinton). They covered the media?s coverage of Iraq in ?Control Room? (a sympathetic look at the Arab news channel Al Jazeera during Operation Iraqi Freedom) and ?Outfoxed? (a searing attack on Rupert Murdoch?s Fox News Channel).. The genre could expand to embrace ?The Corporation,? a scholarly, skeptical essay on multinational capitalism. All these films tried to share a bit of the spotlight in the ?Fahrenheit? glare. And hoped to get some collateral damning from the attacks aimed at Moore...
...with his help the Republicans had made historic gains. That fueled Bush's faith in what could happen when a President resists the temptation to sit tight and instead is willing to spend political capital. For the 2004 campaign, Bush told Rove, he wanted to spend again to further expand his party's majority in Congress. Bush intended to keep doing risky and not necessarily popular things; to lead a revolution, he would need more troops...
...Kofi Annan counted 101 ways in a much anticipated report released last week. Headed by former Thai Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun, the 16-member panel had something to say about everything from nuclear proliferation to looming pandemics. But the real buzz was caused by the panel's call to expand and revamp the U.N.'s most important decision-making body, the Security Council. If approved, the recommendations would produce the biggest shake-up at Turtle Bay in more than a generation. "The chances of thorough reform have never been as good as they are now," says a German official...
...might the U.N. be willing to go this time around? In an effort to improve regional representation, the Panyarachun panel came up with two alternatives for changing the Council's composition. The first would expand the permanent membership from five to 11 nations and increase the number elected to rotating terms from 10 to 13. The second proposal would create a middle tier of eight members elected to renewable four-year terms, and add a new two-year term. Under both proposals, the Security Council would grow from 15 to 24 seats. But neither idea grants the new members...
...plans to expand the program to women in all 31 of its cities in the next two years. Baltimore, New Orleans, New York City, Miami and Pittsburgh are set for 2005. Will the lessons take hold and actually bring a significant number of women into the ranks? Some are skeptical. "It ain't going to happen," says Carol White, the only woman ever to coach Division I college football. "They would have to change society first," says White, an assistant at Georgia Tech in the late 1980s. "It's not an antiwoman thing. Most women just...