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There are a lot of reasons why George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney as his running mate. Charisma isn't one of them. When the Gulf War ended, you could have made a ticker-tape parade just from the press clips devoted to Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf. In that media rush Cheney went mostly unnoticed, though as the hawkish Secretary of Defense, it was he as much as anyone who put in motion the military option against Saddam. That's what a retiring manner will sometimes get you. On a trip to the Soviet Union in the 1980s, when...
...evening came and conventioneers across town prepared to hear retired general Norman H. Schwartzkopf's remarks on military readiness, the splintered groups coalesced around a few large demonstrations, mostly at blocked intersections. At Spruce and Broad streets, about 300 protesters had gathered in the center of one of the city's busiest streets and the main route from the hotels to the convention...
...Quoth the Times: "Thoughout the evening, a cavalcade of military heroes - from Mr. McCain to Bob Dole to Gen. J. Norman Schwarzkopf to Senator Chuck Hagel - offered testimonials to Mr. Bush, who did not serve in Vietnam... The intention was to assure the national viewing audience that Mr. Bush could be trusted both as a commander in chief and someone who can provide a steady hand in foreign policy despite his lack of experience in the field." Yet on a night that felt a little like a restoration to some, NYT buries the presence of Ford-Reagan-Bush and their...
...this sort of quotidian creepiness. And as long as it does, director Robert Zemeckis' movie goes like a (haunted) house afire--mysterious moans from the heating system, the hint of a stalking presence, even some strange initials on Claire's computer screen. Everyone--especially her gruffly good-natured husband Norman (Harrison Ford)--says Claire is overwrought...
With good reason. The Spencers' expensively renovated nest is empty; their only child has just left for college. Norman is temporarily neglectful; he's on deadline with an important research paper down at the college. And lonely Claire begins--nosily, obsessively--to focus on the mysterious, conceivably murderous doings of the young couple who have moved in next door...