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...matters who's a pillow away from the presidency. David Gergen writes in Eyewitness to Power that a chipper President Clinton would arrive in the morning only to get a call from Hillary, after which "his mood would darken." The Bushes keep a lid on criticism. "In politics you always have an opponent. It shouldn't be your spouse," she says. It's impossible to judge a marriage from the outside, yet it's hard to picture Mrs. Bush ever darkening the President's day. The peace she carries with her spills over...
...said Tutwiler, whose ear for the right political move is unrivaled. "It's getting incredible coverage." When King Abdullah of Jordan paid a visit to the White House late last month, he privately commended the mosque visit, hinting that similar events would help Arab allies keep a lid on anti-American anger. Around the same time, Bush met with Islamic leaders in the White House. "I have told the nation more than once that ours is a war against evil, against extremists [and] that the teachings of Islam are the teachings of peace and good," Bush said...
...major unknown factor remains how much Arafat is really going to toe the line of the international community on violence. His intentions could be seriously tested this weekend, because September 29th is the first anniversary of the current intifada. His ability to keep a lid on violence this weekend will therefore be a major test...
...even if Peres and Arafat do meet, and even if they do agree to push ahead with the Mitchell proposals, it will still be a very long bet to say that will lead to much of an improved situation here. The international pressure is designed more to put a lid on things than to use the opportunity to make a dramatic peace deal...
Maybe the best way to convince people that you're giving away the male gender's dark secrets is to confirm provocatively what they already believe. (See also The Other Half's blowing the lid off why men don't look at maps.) But at best, these series show TV arriving at a more nuanced understanding of manhood. In the dreaded '70s "sensitive man" era, feminist guys tended to simply, implausibly, deny what made them different from women. The postfeminist backlash of the '90s gave us the chest-thumping likes of Comedy Central's The Man Show. Today's post...