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Smith applies the same kind of arithmetic and discipline to his personal life, and as a result, he enjoys a Hollywood rarity: a stable 10-year marriage. "Our first official date was with a relationship counselor," he says. "The math of it is simple. Start while it's good. Do it three times a week while you're laughing and still having fun. You get so much more work done. You head off problems. Do it during the ether time, and do it aggressively. There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every...
This is one of those little pop-cultural shifts--football overtakes baseball, salsa defeats ketchup--that signal bigger changes: here, in the relationship between the community and the individual. In a traditional Christmas story, the larger holiday is a social good. It uplifts the suicidal, raises every voice in Whoville, renders peace between Macy and Gimbel. Those who reject it--Scrooge, the Grinch--must be forced into its tinseled embrace. Community is all, as in Wonderful Life's blend of World War II patriotism and New Deal populism: your money's in the Kennedy house and Mrs. Macklin's house...
...Loyalty What a brilliant piece Michael Duffy wrote on Rudolph Giuliani and his loyalty to Bernard Kerik [Nov. 26]. Duffy's snapshot provided one of the most concise and intriguing portraits of a political animal that I have ever read. He truly captured Giuliani through the prism of his relationship with Kerik, possibly his closest ally. And the statement made by an operative from a rival campaign on Rudy's pitch - "I'm not a nice guy. But the people you fear, fear me" - was so articulate a description it gave me pause. Carl A. Hulbert, Bellingham, Washington...
...think there are too many more people in the Parliament of Australia who know more about China than I do," Rudd said soon after becoming Labor leader. His longest on-camera interview during the campaign was with China's CCTV network. "I look forward to taking the relationship between China and Australia to a whole new level," he said. Rudd wants Australia to be "the most China-literate and Asia-literate economy" in the West. Colin Mackerras, professor of Asian studies at Griffith University, says that in Beijing, "Rudd's having lived in China and speaking Chinese will have...
...dance with China, Rudd will have to tread carefully. "The Chinese are always sensitive about our relationship with the U.S., even though they know we have the alliance," Mackerras says. "The fact that Howard was so pro-American was not a plus. A withdrawal from Iraq is likely to please the Chinese." A perception that Australia is too close to China, however, could displease Australia's Asia-Pacific allies. "I'm rock solid on the alliance with the U.S." Rudd has said. "I have never seen that as being mutually exclusive of a strong relationship with the People's Republic...