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...free-spirited flirt who begins the movie in Berlin entertaining the meter-reader and ends in London in the arms of Jack the Ripper, Lulu brings out the worst in all her men - foremost among them a scrofulous pimp who may be her father and a newspaper publisher (Fritz Kortner) and his son (Franz Lederer). She marries the publisher, who becomes enraged on their wedding night and insists she kill herself. The gun goes off, and he's dead. At her trial she's a symphony in black in her widow's weeds, but she's able to flash...
...task facing the Old Guard is to fashion an exit strategy from Iraq that can salvage U.S. prestige and avoid turning the civil war into an even wider and more violent catastrophe. There are only a few known knowns here: it surely pains the father that it has come to this. It is just as galling to the son that he had to invite his father's most trusted consiglieres to step in and help clean up his mess overseas. Neither man appreciates the chortling sounds coming from the vast Bush 41 crowd, which has long harbored grave doubts about...
Baker has been talking to the President directly for months. The two men have a long history. It was Bush who installed himself in Washington in 1986 to keep an eye on his father's presidential campaign, then being run by Baker. And it was Baker who led the legal fight in Florida that handed W. his presidency in 2001. But if Baker is now laying the groundwork for another bailout of the man he once referred to as Junior, he can also thank Bush for bringing him back to center stage at a time of genuine national crisis. Baker...
...foreign policy with a mantle of idealism by declaring that the U.S. should enter World War I to make the world safe for democracy, American leaders have tended in public to stress the idealist elements of the mix when justifying a foreign involvement. That's what President Bush's father did during the first Gulf War when he emphasized, rightly, the moral justifications for defending Kuwait against Iraq's aggression. But James Baker made a gaffe (defined by Michael Kinsley as a politician accidentally saying something true) by stating the obvious, which was that Kuwait's huge oil reserves made...
...neocons. That will play itself out in the campaign of John McCain. On one shoulder, he has his close friends from the realist camp, such as Kissinger, Powell and Robert Zoellick. Perched on the other shoulder are more crusading neocons and "national greatness" theorists led by William Kristol, whose father Irving helped provide the intellectual underpinnings for a morality-based foreign policy a generation...