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...more violent catastrophe. There are only a few known knowns here: it surely pains the father that it has come to this. It is just as galling to the son that he had to invite his father's most trusted consiglieres to step in and help clean up his mess overseas. Neither man appreciates the chortling sounds coming from the vast Bush 41 crowd, which has long harbored grave doubts about the soundness of 43's foreign policy team. The biggest question is how the object of the intervention will react. As one senior official in the 41 White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for an Iraq Exit Strategy | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...welcoming the return of some realism, let's not forget that America's strength comes from its values: being on the side of liberty and democracy. The mess in Iraq does not repudiate this. It merely reminds us that, from the Monroe Doctrine through the Marshall Plan, both realism and idealism have been complementary strands in our foreign policy. The goal, now as ever, is not to pick one over the other or to blur the distinction between them. Instead, it's to weave them together in the right combination so that they reinforce each other. ?Isaacson, a former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of the Realists | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...destroyed in a fire. Dreyer constructed a new version using the negatives of alternate takes from his original filming. That too was lost in a fire. But 25 years ago, in a closet at a Norwegian mental institution, a complete print of the original somehow turned up - a mess, but the real thing. This impeccably cleaned-up transfer, a miracle of restoration as well as rediscovery, allows the film to be seen as it has not been since its premiere. The disc also provides a history of the film's various versions, and an optional (that means you can turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Criterion Top 10 | 11/10/2006 | See Source »

...battle to succeed him will be bruising, as members attempt to allocate blame for the Foley mess. Among those seeking to replace him at the top of the House leadership, which will now be the minority leader, are House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), now second in the House leadership, and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), chairman of the House conservative caucus, the Republican Study Committee. Other possible candidates are Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), now chief deputy whip and one of the most popular and hard-working members of the leadership, and Rep. Joe Barton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hastert Will Step Down | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...inspiring,” Wright says. “The thing was, for his first basket, he dunked and then screamed, shaking the gym. He did not mess around...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Big Ten to the Quad | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

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