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Without prompting, BEN AFFLECK, the star of Pearl Harbor, can deliver a recitation on the history of American isolationism that includes references to the America First movement, Charles Lindbergh, Wendell Willkie and F.D.R.'s neighbor's-house-on-fire, lend-him-a-hose speech. He's not dating Gwyneth Paltrow--but it's clear he's been spending some quality time with Doris Kearns Goodwin, who's foxy in her own way. As for the movie: "I play a guy who believes we should be in World War II," says Affleck. "I have kind of a John Wayne idea about...
...history through which the principal adversary of the Vietnamese has always been China. Indeed, six years after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, Hanoi and Beijing fought a brief border war after Beijing sought to "punish" Vietnam for ejecting the Beijing-aligned regime of Pol Pot from power in neighboring Cambodia. (The Chinese, in that encounter, suffered what might politely be termed a thrashing.) And in recent years both countries have laid claim to the Spratly Islands, a disputed, possibly oil-rich archipelago in the South China Sea. Vietnamese wariness of the power of their much larger neighbor may indeed create...
...younger days. Four years before the Maine D.U.I., in an incident reported more than a decade ago, 26-year-old Bush was driving home after a party in the Washington area along with his 15-year-old brother Marvin. Bush had been drinking, and he ran over a neighbor's garbage can and dragged it down the street, which led to an angry confrontation with his father. Officer Bridges has described an encounter with Bush's parents in 1993, while he was working a detail for the former President and First Lady. Bridges told the Boston Globe that Bush...
...Arthur Schlesinger Jr. plays a board game called Camelot with a roommate whose mother is best friends from convent school with Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. In the 1970s, Schlesinger lives in a house on Manhattan's East 64th Street. He looks out his bedroom window one day and sees his neighbor Richard M. Nixon "prowling restlessly around his garden." In a little while a party begins at the Schlesinger house. A guest--invited by a friend of his wife's--comes to the door, a man whom Schlesinger has never met: Alger Hiss. They have a polite chat--even though Schlesinger...
According to Neighbor, the commission just learned last year that it was required to include inactive voters in its calculations, so this year's rate cannot be compared against those of previous elections...