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...sketch the plot of Married Life is to make the movie seem more provocative than it turns out to be. Drab, middle-age Harry (Chris Cooper) confides to his spiffy friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan) that he's fallen in love with young, blond Kay (Rachel McAdams). The inconvenience is Harry's wife Pat (Patricia Clarkson); he still cares for the old girl, and it would kill her to see her hurt. So he'll have to kill her. That's the recipe for a fine thriller, of old or new fashion, and the attractive cast has their hooks...
...civilians they claim to represent. Alliances form, only to break again, often for no greater reason than the personal ambitions of their leaders and the inevitable clashes they provoke. "It's like a play," says Azzedine Zerual, a project director with unicef in north Darfur. "'You are my friend today, but you will be my enemy tomorrow.' Maybe in a month they'll be friends again, and then enemies...
...month of victories, and her advisers now feel they have put a stick in the spokes of his momentum. "They thought they could kill us," a Clinton campaign official crowed as the Ohio and Texas results were coming in. "They know time is their enemy; time is our friend...
...made possible by many layers of calculation underneath. His mild manner belies fierce self-control. The frequent self-mocking conceals a stubborn self-confidence. He not only plays hard; he plays to win, rubs it in sometimes if he does and takes losses hard. "He is," says a friend who has known his share of strivers, "one of the most competitive people I've ever...
...slow him down. As a state senator in 2000, he took on the Cook County machine to challenge a sitting four-term Congressman and lost - a pre-emptive strike against the political establishment and a cocky signal that he wasn't going to wait his turn. Valerie Jarrett, a friend and now a top adviser, recalls hosting a small brunch at her house at the end of 2002, when Obama was weighing a bid for the U.S. Senate. "It was Michelle, Barack, myself and maybe two or three others," she says. "All of us came in lockstep to convince...