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...While still in high school in the San Francisco suburb of Burlingame, Strauss created Politico, a homemade board game of political campaign strategy, and served as a page at the U.S. Supreme Court...
Back in Pristina, where preparations for independence day are under way, Thaci is putting the finishing touches to a personal makeover from irascible rebel leader to buttoned-down politico. In Kosovo's recent election campaign, he focused not on questions of independence but instead on energy supplies (those power outages), road-building and economic development. "I made mistakes in the past. But I've changed," Thaci says. After all the blood that's been shed there, let's hope that's true of his native land...
...prove significant for Sundquist, who has stated that his decision to run will be significantly influenced by whether he can once again make the daily sacrifices—both in terms of health and academics—that the meeting-laden, on-demand life of a top campus politico consistently demands...
...Obey is also known on Capitol Hill for his mercurial temper. He once famously got into a shoving match with former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on the floor of the House and this spring was dubbed "Mount Obey" by Politico, a daily Hill newspaper and political website, because of an eruption at anti-war Democrat Dennis Kucinich for asking what Obey deemed a dumb question...
...mere coda, though, to the film's climactic half-hour, when Berg pours on the adrenaline with cool shootouts, last-minute rescues and the cornering of the evil genius. That should give The Kingdom mass-audience appeal as a retro-fantasy of American grit and smarts, culminating in politico-military triumph. Who needs a stalled, baffled, exhausted Army when our four globetrotting, gun-toting crime-solvers can be sent to the scene to sleuth out and wipe out the bad guys...