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...Already, the 64-year old former civil servant has launched a campaign against corruption and cronyism that, for the first time in four decades, resulted in the arrest of a cabinet minister, Kasitah Gaddam. Indicted in the same week was top businessman Eric Chia Eng Hock, a favorite of Mahathir who headed one of the then leader's pet projects, the Perwaja Steel Works. Abdullah also indefinitely postponed what would have been the country's biggest infrastructure project, a $3.8 billion replacement for the dilapidated railway system awarded by Mahathir in his final days in office to a consortium...
DIED. DANIEL J. BOORSTIN, 89, historian and public servant; in Washington. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for The Americans: The Democratic Experience, a cultural history of post--Civil War America, and spent 13 years as Librarian of Congress. Famous for the enlightened skepticism with which he regarded popular culture, he warned, "Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models...
...American society where intellectualism is often frowned upon, Kerry is still a thinking man. The choice in November will be clear, with a thoughtful, intellectually engaged life-long public servant who will not be afraid to fight a sitting president who has bragged about not reading the newspaper. Certainly, any Harvard student should be able to appreciate the importance of staying informed and making an intellectual contribution to our country’s discourse. Kerry is willing to engage in this discourse, and he will not shy from challenging the president’s lies in public debate...
...with violence is bound to roil some people. But the film's carnage is emetic, not exploitative. The crowning with thorns, the scourging at the pillar, the agonized trudge up Calvary show what Jesus suffered and why; and James Caviezel's spiky, ferocious, nearly heroic performance is a perfect servant to the role. This is not a movie for all believers - or for all moviegoers. But it is, nonetheless, a believer's movie. Gibson believes in the power of Jesus' message. He believes in the power of cinema to rethink traditions, to make Jesus live in a skeptical...
...care about art anymore? It's not the art of fiction we have in mind here. It's fiction that manages to work in a few Italian frescoes or a Dutch still life. Stirred by the success of Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, about a household servant who inspires Vermeer, publishers have rushed in with titles like Christopher Peachment's Caravaggio; Will Davenport's The Painter, about Rembrandt; and Mario Vargas Llosa's The Way to Paradise, about Gauguin. As a rule, the books are intelligent, sometimes even ingenious, but in most, the underlying formula is plain...