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Lincoln's political resume was meager, his learning derided, and his election considered a stroke of luck. And yet the prairie lawyer from Springfield would emerge the undisputed captain of his distinguished Cabinet, earning the respect of colleagues who had originally disdained him, and become, as Whitman wrote, "the grandest figure yet, on all the crowded canvas of the Nineteenth Century...
...role of Lear may be the grandest challenge for an actor, and Stratford Veteran Douglas Campbell is not quite up to it. He is thunderously imposing in the court scenes but not free enough when howling, half-maddened, on the heath. Otherwise, the energetic farewell production by Stratford Artistic Director John Hirsch is strikingly played, notably by Richard McMillan as Edgar, Lewis Gordon as Gloucester, and McKenna as a passionate, not just saintly, Cordelia. In an echo of Twelfth Night, Hirsch also features the Fool, whom Nicholas Pennell, unbearably mannered as Malvolio, plays with clearheaded reason and heartbreaking foresight. Together...
...gently remind the President how brilliantly his father harnessed a global coalition in the first Iraq war. In 1991, the means dwarfed the end, and not the other way round, leaving the U.S. with a margin of maneuver it does not enjoy today. Urge Bush to return to the grandest tradition of American global leadership. The proper maxim is to cajole rather than confront, argue rather than annoy, persuade rather than provoke. Point out that none of America's key interests can be achieved without allies of weight. There is no going it alone when it comes to Iranian...
...Hong Kong, perhaps in all Asia, it is a stethoscope monitoring the troubled hearts of people who have the attitude but not always the aptitude for love. At $15 million and more than two hours in length (20 minutes longer than any of his earlier pictures), 2046 is the grandest project of a man who, in an age of coarse and facetious movies, has the mission to reestablish the romantic tone of the grandest old films?where two beautiful people would gaze into each other's eyes and go about breaking each other's hearts...
...senior White House official suggested last week that the Administration would take its time with the commission's grandest demand, a new national director of intelligence. The biggest question was not whether to create such a post--Bush seems destined to endorse the notion--but how to do it. Should the duties of the CIA director be expanded or a new entity created? The commission recommended putting the new intelligence uberboss in the Cabinet, but Bush aides say they fear that doing so would subject the post's holder to political pressure--a position ironic to Democrats who believe...