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...preferred message. So Cohen had Army General Hugh Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, telephone Clark with a tart midwar message: "The Secretary of Defense asked me to give you some verbatim guidance, so here it is: 'Get your f______ face off the TV,'" Clark wrote in his 2001 memoir. (Cohen declined to discuss Clark...
...Bill and I debated whether we should attend a ceremony in Tiananmen Square, where Chinese authorities had used tanks to forcibly suppress pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989." HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, New York Senator and former First Lady, in a passage from her memoir Living History that was expunged?along with several others?from the Chinese edition...
...from terrorism to aids, from creeping protectionism to the collapse of failed states. Why not raise our sights above the headlines and consider a grander bargain? Think about the golden age of American diplomacy in the 1940s that was described so poignantly in Secretary of State Dean Acheson's memoir, Present at the Creation. The deal was as breathtaking as it was simple: instead of going back to the old balance-of-power politics, the U.S. built a cooperative international order that promoted American interests by serving those of others. Leadership was not grabbed, but earned. And the Europeans were...
...other side of the pond, as a recent divorcee (Diane Lane) flees to Italy, purchases a villa and finds a mysterious foreign love interest. Adapted for the screen by Audrey Wells‚ who also produced and directed‚ from author Frances Mayes’ bestselling memoir, with a number of departures from the book. In the past, Wells has been responsible for such mixed fare as George of the Jungle, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, and The Kid; here she strives to transcend the cliches of the typical romantic romp. An array of complications and subplots flesh...
Farmer says he is confident at last that Kidder managed to see beyond the single-hero mode and tell that fuller story. For his part, Kidder says he is moving on soon to a memoir of his year of service in Vietnam—but he says it would be impossible for him to close the door on Farmer and PIH when he concludes his current book tour...