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...author of the nbc News/Wall Street Journal poll that caused some anguish in the White House last week, says there's no need for the Bush team to panic. "People are still forming their opinions of him," says Teeter, a Republican. "All in all, he's in reasonably good shape...
...This is where Yorkin and Lear's flair for casting shows up ? in picking seemingly unlikely performers who will grow their roles and shape them with their own temperaments. Veteran Comic Foxx won his "Sanford" role partly on the strength of his only other dramatic appearance ? as a junkman in the 1970 "Cotton Comes to Harlem." He and Co-Star Demond Wilson now work with "Sanford's" Producer and Chief Writer Aaron Ruben, who is white, to "translate the scripts into spook," as Foxx puts it. "The writers are beginning to learn black is another language." (Meantime, Ruben is training...
...regional authority that runs delay-plagued Logan, has taken the most radical step. In February, it became the first such authority in the nation to set minimum performance standards for airlines. Soon it will name names of underachievers in its "Guaranteed Passenger Standards" program, which requires carriers to shape up or face fines--or worse. "Airports have historically been run for the benefit of the airlines," says Virginia Buckingham, executive director of Massport. "But we're starting to look at service from the customer's point of view...
...ended 56 years ago, and?despite its continuing cultural resonance?it's fair to wonder how much longer its shadow will shape our world. Already, the grip is loosening. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi seems more prepared than any of his recent predecessors to assert Japan's national interests; if, as planned, he visits the Yasukuni shrine, a memorial to Japanese war dead, he would be the first Premier to do so in an official capacity. Gerhard SchrOder's government is explicitly committed to the idea that Germany can and should be a "normal" country, not one whose every move...
...Bush visited the memorial to the Warsaw ghetto uprising. But symbols get you only so far. And this much is plain: whether the evidence is Russia's slippage into the third rank of states, Japan's new nationalism or Germany's willingness to create its own foreign policy, the shape of the world as it was forged by the most awful cataclysm in human history is changing. One day?even in America?World War II will be just another movie...