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...three speech-cycles ago. There was a lot of melodramatic spew about this being the beginning stage of World War III or IV. John O'Sullivan, the National Review's editor-at-large, predicted major geostrategic shifts ahead, with the Europeans slipping over to the dark side at the behest of their Islamic immigrant populations. "Do you think," one summit-goer asked me, in an eruption of overwrought historicity, "this...
...next page, easily won the crowd with his argument favoring Bush's New Way Forward in Iraq, though not without a few bumps. Kristol, normally an impeccable debater, seemed boggled by this simple question from the audience: "How do we know if we're winning or losing? Whose side are we on in Iraq?" Kristol detoured into the Korean War, then cited the three democratic elections held in Iraq, which were little more than ethnic referendums, and advanced the astonishing notion that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was actually presiding over a "coalition government" rather than acting as beard...
...heights of Vatican power. He smiles easily. He laughs out loud. His oval face and dark, bespectacled eyes show no sign of scars from the bureaucratic battles that accompany most climbs up the Roman Curia career ladder. A few years ago, I saw Bertone walking alone on a side street near St. Peter's and went over to say hello and shake his hand. He stopped on a dime when he heard his name, turning toward me with his arms spread open, and practically sang out in his baritone, "Oooh! Carissimo! How's it going!?" And we had never even...
...polarizing as Hillary Clinton really be elected? "I know how to win," she insisted at the Teamsters hall. "I can win the nomination and I can win the general election because there isn't anybody besides my husband who's been through more with the folks on the other side than I have, and I know how to beat them...
...bewitching women spurned by cruel men; in Los Angeles. As a TV producer, he created The Patty Duke Show and I Dream of Jeannie, but in midlife, he went for grander plotlines. His novels, including Are You Afraid of the Dark?--published when he was 87--and The Other Side of Midnight, sold 300 million copies in 180 countries and made him one of the world's most translated authors...