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...language in presidential memos--which are known, rather redundantly, as Memorandums of Notification (MONs)--that killing bin Laden would be legal. (Ever since Iran-contra and other scandals, covert ops have routinely been lawyered in advance.) As Washington Post managing editor Steve Coll points out in his new book, Ghost Wars, Attorney General Janet Reno, among others, wouldn't allow a Bond-style license to kill, so Clinton's MONs would say things like, "apprehend with lethal force as authorized...
...It’s going to be hot [today], so I don’t know what to expect,” Bates said. “I run best in cooler weather. I’m as white as a ghost so I don’t have much protection from...
There's something profoundly sinister and infectious about the idea, and it's a virus we caught from our computers. We spend all day working in a ghost world of digital data, computerized information that's manipulable, rewritable, copyable, rebootable and erasable. Then we go home to a computer full of MP3s and a TiVo full of reruns. Eternal Sunshine plays on the creeping suspicion that our memories might work the same way--that deep down we're not unique immortal souls but swirls of fungible data points on a rewritable hard drive. If all we know of reality...
...after Super Tuesday, a ghost of politics past materialized in Los Angeles: George W. Bush the Candidate. This is a different guy from George W. Bush the President, whose rotating personae--resolute defender of freedom, deer in the headlights, jaunty flyboy--haven't been nearly as engaging as the low-key fellow who campaigned in 2000. Bush the Candidate is charming, plainspoken and humble. He rarely raises his voice; he never orates; he always drops his gs. It is hard to imagine a politician more different from John Kerry, who has dominated the past few months with equine dignity...
...Jarmusch (Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai) is also releasing a visual stunner, the black-and-white Coffee and Cigarettes. The movie’s basically a collection of shorts he’s made over the past decade and a half, where a bunch of random famous people sit around and chat. These people include the White Stripes, Roberto Benigni, Iggy Pop, Cate Blanchett, Steve Buscemi and, in a single conversation, RZA, GZA and Bill Murray. Will probably appeal to Waking Life fans or anyone whose wondering what the hell Wu Tang has to say to Carl Spackler...