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Burnham wasn't the only one. The idea that America must act proactively against its enemies, or else grow inexorably weaker, was a staple of the cold war right. "Like the boxer who refuses to throw a punch," warned Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, "the defense-bound nation will be cut down sooner or later." In the 1960s, with China rushing toward the Bomb, preventive war was proposed again...
...Blanchett because of an intergovernmental debate over whether the shooting is an act of Islamic terrorism. That was one of many echoes in Cannes movies of roiling events in the world beyond the screen. Yet Cannes '06 was fairly harangue-free; there was no Michael Moore to spike the punch bowl with one of his incendiary documentaries. The most notable nonfiction political film was An Inconvenient Truth, starring Al Gore, the former U.S. Vice President and near-President. Essentially a slide show on the looming disaster of climate change, the movie is like its front man: both committed and muted...
...Washington. As Clinton showed her command of the intricacies of carbon-dioxide sequestration and cellulosic ethanol, it was impossible not to wonder whether the two of them might once again be crowding onto the same turf. Maureen Dowd wrote in the New York Times: "Al Gore must want to punch Hillary Clinton right through the hole in the ozone layer." Gore, however, took pains to tamp down that kind of talk. As he pointed out Chelsea Clinton in the audience at Town Hall last week, he added, "I want to commend to all of you Senator Clinton's important address...
...aide admitted to the Business School with one year of college under his belt (“Bush’s Personal Aide to Enroll at Business School,” news, May 22). I’m looking through the story to see where the punch line is, for the byline “by theonion.com,” or evidence of the Lampoon’s latest gag. I’m not seeing it anywhere. STEVE C. SHIUE ’86 Plano, Texas...
...fireworks? In Cannes, the response to any question about the town's fondness for excess is: Why not? (Actually, the pyrotechnics were for the Marie Antoinette beach party.) The films in competition for the Palme d'Or tend to be a solemn lot, so any spiking of the punch bowl is welcome. The occasional midnight screenings of non-competing films is also a chance for the locals to snag a few free tickets, put on their best duds and see a movie. On the red-carpeted steps usually reserved for directors and stars, hundreds of Cannes residents snapped photos...