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...granted, not announced in a flashy Freudian face-off like the one that introduces Vesper. Camille too seeks revenge, and admits to Bond with wry satisfaction that she slept with the film’s villain, Dominic Greene (a wonderful Mathieu Amalric), to get closer to the Bolivian general who killed her family. Lest the two spies seem like a dour pair, Haggis and Forster let them off the leash every now and then. Despite Vesper’s painfully felt absence, Bond still lets himself seduce fellow agent Strawberry Fields (no joke), while a tipsy Camille takes pleasure...
...minutes. The Stable Boy handed Ollie an envelope and a small bag of coins. Through the patrons’ shouts, songs, yells, and roars, this writer was able to make out the following word: “Roxanna.”Ollie rose, tipped his battered hat in the general vicinity of everyone, and walked quickly out the door. The Stable Boy remained at the table. The lamp shone hotly on his perfect face...
...transition provides an early glimpse of how the Obama team will conduct itself in power - and a test of how much change it really will bring to Washington. As the cascade of crises grows - the collapse of General Motors being the latest - the President-elect won't have time to settle in before making big decisions. In a real sense, the moves Obama makes in the next six weeks may help define what kind of President he will be. The appointments he makes, the way he engineers his government, how fast he gets everything in place - each of those things...
...which helped set the stage for what turned out to be a rocky first year in office. Whereas Clinton put most of his early efforts into picking a diverse Cabinet that he said would look like America - and required three attempts to come up with a female Attorney General - Obama will initially focus on building his White House operation, much as Ronald Reagan did in 1980. Cabinet appointments are likely to begin coming by the end of the month, which is still early by recent historical standards. But Podesta says Obama intends to make the White House the locus...
Except for the soft hydraulic whir of expectations being raised, the first week of the Obama transition was a quiet one. Indeed, the big news came from neither Chicago nor Washington but from Detroit and Beijing. In Detroit, General Motors - the stupendously clueless automaker - begged for a bailout lest it go bankrupt, thereby raising the question: If our resources are limited, why should we invest in the failed corporate past rather than in the technologies of the future? The obvious answer was to protect jobs. But how long would those jobs last without a significant overhaul of the company...