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Like the rest of the new players, Blumberg is in no one’s shadow...
...Alexander could be Stone--a crafty-crazy visionary who legendarily drives himself, his crew and his films through chaos and into creativity. In this shadow autobiography, Alexander's India is Stone's Vietnam, the land where he fought in the infantry and the subject of so many of his films. In the battle scenes in India, trained elephants materialize as if in a Nam soldier's dope dream, and the screen goes red. At this moment of hallucinogenic hyperdrama, the camera almost literally has blood...
...ally Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "She's getting this job because she's not a threat," says retired Lieut. General William Odom of the conservative Hudson Institute. When Rice tried to impose order on prewar planning, Rumsfeld ignored her. Vice President Cheney established a broad and powerful shadow National Security Council early in the Administration and used his close relationship with Bush to drive White House decision making. Yet some foreign diplomats praise her all-business style as the executor of Bush's will, compared with the image-heavy operation of Powell. "When Powell comes, he's got hordes...
...notes Michael Hogan, a political scientist at the University of Sydney, they are also "almost an anti-Christian party." An election scorecard compiled by the ACL and other Christian groups gave the Greens 0 out of 26. Labor did little better, with 4. (The Coalition rated 16.) Shadow foreign affairs minister Kevin Rudd, a devout Christian, has expressed outrage at the notion that "God has somehow become some wholly owned subsidiary of political conservatism in this country." Labor needs, he said, to connect with voters "who are searching for some form of certainty in an age of great uncertainty." Social...
Your article "Iraq's Shadow Ruler" [Oct. 25], on Islamic Shi'ite leader Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, stated, "The version of democracy [the U.S.] went to war to create in Iraq may not be the one it gets. To achieve a stable, free Iraq, there's no going around the power--and preferences--of ... Sistani." I doubt, however, that Sistani would ever cooperate with a pro-U.S. regime in Iraq. After all, your story quoted the cleric as telling citizens to ask the Americans they meet, "When are you leaving Iraq?" CHRISTOPHER RUSHLAU Mosul, Iraq...