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...than it has ever been-an assessment strengthened by the rapid-fire conclusion of a number of military pacts between the two nations in the last month. But no amount of hugs between Bush and Koizumi can obscure some awkward questions about the alliance: what precisely does the U.S. expect from Japan? And whatever it is, will Japan be able to deliver...
...tenure from two to five years of classroom experience. Worse, congressional districting reforms failed in both California and Ohio; two decades of questionable gerrymandering deals, especially between white Republicans and black Democrats in the South, has increased minority representation but decreased the number of House districts where Democrats can expect to compete. A Democratic House or Senate in 2006 remains a long shot, at best. Still, it's fun to watch Rahm Emanuel in full flight, riffing at warp speed, bouncing off the walls-a Democratic operative as happy warrior for a change...
Steven Soderbergh, who directed Traffic and whose production company, Section Eight, bought the rights to See No Evil, negotiated the deal with Warner Bros., even though details about the movie were nonexistent. "In those situations," says Soderbergh, "you never expect the studio to see the UFO, but you've got to make them believe you saw it." Still, Gaghan needed a story, and See No Evil was no help. Even Baer admits that much of the book is so esoteric that it's "wasted on everyone but Israeli intelligence...
That said, vacationing golfers shouldn't expect Pebble Beach. The Kabul club was built in 1967, when Afghanistan was a relaxed kingdom with movie theaters, women wearing short skirts and plenty of Western tourists. After the U.S.S.R. invaded, its army dug in near the seventh hole, and the course became a battlefield, with mujahedin fighters attacking from the hills above. The Soviets arrested the local pro, Mohammed Afzal Abdul, for being a U.S. spy; his interrogators said it was because golf was such a capitalist, bourgeois sport. After fleeing to Pakistan, Afzal returned to Kabul shortly before the Taliban seized...
George R.R. Martin is fond of sudden reversals. The tasty but poisoned dish, the false god who abruptly proves all too real, the unsalvageable rogue who strikes a hidden vein of decency when we--and he--least expect it. Martin is also partial to sacked castles, bear pits, disastrous battles, cynical betrayals, public executions, assassinations, ill luck, duels to the death, ambushes in forests and corpses left rotting in green hedgerows. The world Martin writes about may bear a passing resemblance to Olde Englande, but it is not a Merrie...