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...tiny dorm rooms where his younger classmates reside, Kaplan reaches up to a handmade bookshelf and dusts off his 1940 Yale thesis on F.D.R. up until now the retired furniture maker has avoided Lasell writing courses. Kaplan skims his old thesis to remind himself how he used to Polish his prose. Having lived through 11 presidencies and the birth of three grandchildren since he penned that last paper, he reviews his work with a critical eye. Then he sets it aside, closes his laptop and puts pen to page the old-fashioned way. It may be his first paper...
...vigor and electricity. But if the Democrats do mount a successful populist campaign against Bush, it will have to be sunny and sophisticated, with the anger carefully rationed. In other words, it will contain, as Kerry's stump speech now does, equal quantities of those eternal military-marching properties--polish and spit. If the nominee is Howard Dean, he'll have to work on the polish...
Democracy's heroes don't always make heroic Presidents. Lech Walesa toppled Polish communism in the 1980s, but presided over a mediocre government in the 1990s. Many fear the same will be true of Mexican President Vicente Fox. Riding a wave of hope and optimism in 2000, Fox defeated the dictatorial Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled Mexico since 1929. But since then, he's faced mostly legislative defeats and diminished stature. It wasn't until last week, when George W. Bush finally proposed the U.S. immigration reforms that Fox has long urged, that Fox got to savor...
...Singapore for a medical conference and hurriedly cleaned up a spill in his lab from a leaky waste bag. Chan told investigators that he thought the spill was safe because it was several days old and therefore any virus in it should have died. Not exactly a spit-and-polish operation...
...success of the first two IA movies showed that Hong Kong's commercial filmmakers, given time and money, could create works that combined the stylishness and spirit of local cinema with the polish and ambition of Hollywood. That energy fizzles out in IA3, but cinematically speaking, two out of three...