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...replica of his diplomat father into a bellowing warmonger may resonate with critics who see the Bush Doctrine as the greatest betrayal of his 2000 campaign rhetoric. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Back in 1999, when the Texas Governor was still just a primary candidate, his world view was plain to see. "Let me be clear," he said. "Our first line of defense is a simple message: Every group or nation must know, if they sponsor such [terrorist] attacks, our response will be devastating." Asked by TIME just after the election how he would respond to a challenge from Saddam...
...portable items of stupendous value within arm's reach? In a single gallery there can be canvases worth more, taken together, than a whole fleet of jumbo jets. And while banks can hide their money in vaults, museums, by their very mission, are compelled to put their valuables in plain sight...
...what can the thieves do with it? The very thing that makes some paintings especially valuable--fame--makes them very difficult to fence on the black market. The Scream, an image nearly everybody knows, is not the kind of thing an unscrupulous buyer could hang in his mansion in plain sight. For that matter, it's hard to imagine some Russian kleptocrat or Colombian drug lord lusting to own anything by the gloomy, sepulchral Munch, not so long as there's an Impressionist landscape to be had instead...
...years ago, a young mayor from sydney's western suburbs began sending unsolicited articles to the opinion page of the Australian newspaper. They were earnest and written in a plain style, usually about health, education or economic policy. As the then editor of the page, I was struck by the way this fellow threw himself into the policy debate, and impressed by how he would good-naturedly accept rejection. At a time when the paper's editor-in-chief demanded "names," why would anyone care what an obscure 33-year-old Labor operative called Mark Latham...
Kerry does not have to be specific about what he would do in Iraq--the situation on the ground changes daily, so how can he know?--but I suspect the public needs to hear, in plain and forceful language, Kerry's opinion of what Bush has done and whether it has been good for America. Instead, Kerry has offered only vague criticisms and an increasingly implausible promise to lure our allies into the chaos. In a year of real crises--the "most important election of our lifetime," he says--Kerry's nostrums sound distressingly like market-tested...