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Success in Iraq, the president asserted, could change the entire region's landscape in two ways--by inspiring sclerotic kingdoms and repressive regimes to embrace democracy and by helping "set in motion" peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Bush has embraced neoconservative theology here: the U.S. is invading a dysfunctional part of the world to fix it, and the shock of war will finally jolt the Arab world into better health. It's an audacious idea but not a working plan. Neither Bush nor any Administration official has detailed how the wave of democratization would occur...
Among his many accomplishments in the film industry, Taradash served as president of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Writers Guild of America, west, throughout the 1970s. In 1996, Taradash received the Guild’s highest honor, the Screen Laurel Award...
...contrast, Gephardt and Lieberman, and North Carolina Senator John Edwards, seem to be moving, and talking, in slow motion. All three spend a fair amount of time telling their personal stories, which are compelling. All three say they are fighting for average folks like their parents. All three voted with the President on Iraq and try to confront that issue straight on. Edwards is best at this: "I know you don't agree with me on Iraq," he told an audience in Indianola, Iowa, which seemed to be entirely composed of peace activists, "but I want to tell you directly...
...DIED. DANIEL TARADASH, 90, screenwriter who won an Oscar in 1953 for his adaptation of James Jones' controversial best-selling novel From Here to Eternity; in Los Angeles. President of the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences from 1970 to 1973, Taradash's other writing credits include Desiree, Picnic, Hawaii and Golden...
...reversal of the rules of children’s entertainment, Fred Rogers favored the familiar. Although he sometimes took his viewers to the post office or to a factory, more often than not he stayed at home and remained in the mode of slow motion. That mode has its own magical quality, one that the German philosopher Walter Benjamin celebrated in his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Benjamin reminded us of how close-ups of the objects that surround us, investigations of familiar places and attention...