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...aides. But the next afternoon, in his private study upstairs at the White House, Bush dictated a string of decisions to Rice. First, sell the mission as a campaign against terrorism that threatens every nation, lest it seem a purely American reprisal, but limit it in scope so that the U.S. isn't committed to defeating every terrorist on the planet. There would be no public offering of any "proof" against bin Laden that might undermine the military mission or compromise intelligence...
...scope of his war aims is astonishing: not only to beat al-Qaeda but revive the Middle East peace process, tackle "grinding poverty and pandemic disease" in Africa and craft new treaties to curb nuclear weapons...
...This is the perfect chance to get inside Baz Lurhman’s head. His dizzying post-modern pastiche presents so many cultural allusions and pop-culture homages, that to comprehend them all requires multiple sittings. Now, Lurhman offers two audio commentaries to encompass the full scope of his sumptuous vision, and the second disc allows the viewer to manipulate multiple-camera angle views of the dance sequences...
...seems like such a basic thing. Most people eat three meals a day. It’s a fairly regular activity. But actually preparing something for myself that involved heating an oven or transforming raw meat from salmonella-laden threat into gustatory delight seemed totally beyond my scope...
...1990s, when the VHS format was challenged, first by laserdiscs and then by DVDs, many directors took it as an opportunity to expand the scope of their revision. We are still living in this period of reflexive directors’ remorse today...