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When a problem is for the moment unsolvable, then enlarge it. (O.K., this is a Donald Rumsfeld maxim, but that doesn't make it inoperative.) One precedent is the opening to China negotiated by Henry Kissinger, which did not try to settle such intractable issues as the status of Taiwan but instead created a framework for a realistic long-term relationship involving both cooperation and contention...
...Criterion has a gift for pairing films that belong together. One example is its release of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths as filmed by Renoir in 1936 and Kurosawa 21 years later. Another is its dual set of The Killers, both the 1946 Robert Siodmak original of Hemingway's story about a man who welcomes his own murder - it's Burt Lancaster's sleepy-eyed, long-muscled film debut - and Don Siegel's hyped-up 1964 remake that was made for TV but too violent for broadcast...
...gold medalists Act I of Boston, and an appearance by 15-time U.S. National synchronized skating champions, The Haydenettes. The show was hosted by 1992 Olympic silver medalist Paul S. Wylie ’90. Other notable performers included 2006 Four Continents silver medalist ice dancers Morgan Matthews and Maxim Zavozin; 2006 Winter Olympic silver medalists Benjamin A. Agosto and Tanith J. L. Belbin; and Christopher R. Schleicher ’09, who skated with his younger sister Molly...
...bout Maxim magazine listing you as one of TV's 10 least appealing ladies? Maxim talks a good game, but if Maxim and I were alone, and Maxim was drunk, they'd sleep with...
...judge by their handling of the Foley scandal, the Republican leadership in Washington appears to be pinning its hopes for a midterm victory on a tired but true maxim: however bad it looks for us, the Democrats will screw up worse somehow. The spectacle of an ongoing G.O.P. meltdown (for a party not known to be fans of mass transit, they sure do like throwing people under buses) makes it hard to believe that the ruling party can continue its power hold on power. But those who think the results of November's elections are a foregone conclusion would...