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...wavelength, as the Hermit Kingdom never could be. Castro has eaten hot dogs at Yankee Stadium, been carried by cheering students around the Princeton campus and appeared on the Tonight Show. Though none of that ensures affection and all those memories are distant, someone who spent his honeymoon in New York City knows at least a little of America. Kim Jong Il, by comparison, is famous as the one leader who may never have met an American. And, being unable to put a face to his enemy, seems much more liable to set his cross hairs...
...Honeymoon Is Over...
...where he produced the first Technicolor cartoon and a host of characters like Andy Panda and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. None came close to the success of Woody Woodpecker, who first hit the screen in 1940. Lantz reveled in the probably apocryphal tale of a woodpecker who disturbed his honeymoon but inspired his best-known creation. (Mrs. Lantz was Woody's voice for most of his career...
...disdain for the national press, Hillary Rodham Clinton had a long honeymoon. By and large, reporters have gently chronicled her reinvention of the First Lady's office as she added a major policy role to the traditional portfolio of hostess and cheerleader. The glowing press accounts of her crusade for health-care reform, full of charmed lawmkers and cheering crowds, helped boost her popularity higher than her husband's at times. Profiles charted the spiritual journey that inspired her social activism, the theologians she read, the ministers she admired. The New York Times Magazine dressed her in white silk...
Both sides, of course, are discovering that the post-cold war honeymoon is over. "Washington and Moscow are realizing that their interests don't always coincide," says Alexander Konovalov, an analyst at the U.S.A. and Canada Institute. "We should be mature enough to realize that is not a tragedy." One sign of such divergence is Ukraine's budding relationship with the U.S., underscored last week when Clinton increased his total aid package $225 million -- but carefully avoided providing any guarantees against Russian meddling...