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...hadn’t, Fitzpatrick probably would have never forgiven...
...Meier: From an economic point of view, this came at the worst possible time. The economy was flush, Russia's credit rating was rising, the stock market was the hottest in the world. The White House had forgiven Russia over its opposition to the war in Iraq, and the outlook appeared rosier than it had been for years. The trouble is, in a system where there's no clear definition of private property, a pliable legal infrastructure and weak political institutions, elections are catalysts for crises - they have been since the fall of the Soviet Union...
...NATO expansion, the ABM treaty, and the U.S. presence in Central Asia. Now you have NATO going into the Baltics, which had previously been a red line for Moscow. On Iraq, he joined France and Germany, but they were the bad guys and he knew he'd be forgiven. Still, at the same time he has his taboos. One is Chechnya, and another is the oligarchs. His message is, "I'll do what I want on my own turf." He has defined himself primarily by those against whom he is fighting. He has yet to define himself in positive terms...
...later years, Kazan was one of those. He was never forgiven for identifying himself and a few old friends as onetime communists before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. Tributes to the old lion were booed, boycotted, canceled. His enemies forgot that even belated opposition to Soviet communism at its most rapacious could be an act of principle as well as expediency--and that an artist's most telling testimony is his work. By that standard, Kazan was an admirable American original. --By Richard Corliss
...same World Trade Organization. In this “global community,” Britain and America are siblings, prevented from squabbling too much by a little ocean and a few hundred years of history. In an age of monopolistic record companies and internet file-sharing, you could be forgiven for expecting everyone to listen to the same music—whatever the corporate gods see fit to entertain us. Everyone likes talking about Radiohead, everyone is afflicted with Britney Spears, Coldplay is everywhere on both sides of the Atlantic. But look closer, and the common tastes start to vanish...