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...only led to nearly two decades of détente. The only effective way to bring about the end of totalitarian regimes is direct confrontation. The U.S.S.R. fell because world leaders like Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II confronted that state and its ideology head-on. Richard Kade, Sunnyvale, Calif...
...next decade. Europe has similarly aggressive biofuel mandates and subsidies, and Brazil's filling stations no longer even offer plain gasoline. Worldwide investment in biofuels rose from $5 billion in 1995 to $38 billion in 2005 and is expected to top $100 billion by 2010, thanks to investors like Richard Branson and George Soros, GE and BP, Ford and Shell, Cargill and the Carlyle Group. Renewable fuels has become one of those motherhood-and-apple-pie catchphrases, as unobjectionable as the troops or the middle class...
...when they were students at Lake Forest. They married in 1942 and became one of Hollywood's most quietly renowned couples. Hazlewood wrote the screenplay for Widmark's one film as a director, The Secret Ways in 1961. Their daughter Anne married Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax in 1969. Richard and Anne were married for 55 years until Hazlewood's death, after a long siege of Alzheimer's disease, in 1997. He told New York Times reporter Aljean Harmetz that he had never been unfaithful or even flirted with other women because, he said, "I happen to like my wife...
...many stars today have the emotional equilibrium to keep their private lives private. (Meryl Streep is an exception - how does she manage it?) The consummate professional, Richard Widmark made his ripples and waves only on-screen. He had worked with plenty of notorious stars and tempestuous directors, but never wrote a tell-all autobiography, perhaps because he thought that secrets were best kept, not spilled. "I think a performer should do his work," he said in 1974, "and then shut up." He let his acting do the talking, snarling and giggling. And that was eloquent enough...
Culture Clash Cold-shouldered by grown-ups, young Britons have developed an especially potent culture of their own. "Young people live in a world with very little meaningful contact or engagement with adults," says Professor Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, who has made a study of the causes of happiness...