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...Governor of California, Reagan built a strong administration, saw the state budget double and, says Wills, "committed the very sin he inveighed against -- government." The same imbalance of reality and myth continues during the presidency, which takes up the last and weakest portion of a 41- chapter book. Here Wills' cinematic thesis tends to fade out. "What is Star Wars," he asks rhetorically, "but another, more complex projector meant to trace, in lasers and benign nuclear 'searchlights,' the image of America itself across the widest screen of all?" But Reagan is not the inventor of the Strategic Defense Initiative...
Like many adaptations of classic novels, Lyubimov's is less a retelling of the story than a musing on its themes, best understood by people who know its plot well. Raskolnikov (Randle Mell) harps on the quasi-Nietzschean idea that conquerors absolve themselves of sin by the very act of conquest. He repeatedly urges himself to be a Napoleon -- which, Lyubimov acknowledges, Soviet audiences often took to mean a Stalin. These philosophical monologues, however, are kept brief. Lyubimov relies heavily on ritual and brief blackout skits that verge on surreal slapstick; he creates a milieu more than he mounts...
...Noynoy"), 26, was one of her emissaries to the Communists. Aquino attends no more than three formal dinners a week, and the day on which the historic cease-fire with the Communists was signed found her marking what would have been her husband's 54th birthday with Cardinal Sin and her one-year-old grandson Justin Benigno. Being a grandmother, she says, makes her happier than being President...
...Cory is a singularly family-oriented person even for a family-oriented culture, she is also uncommonly devout even for a country that is 85% Catholic. And if Cory inspires faith, it is largely because she is inspired by it. Three of her closest advisers are Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila; Father Joaquin Bernas, president of the Jesuit Ateneo de Manila University; and Father Catalino Arevalo, another Jesuit, who is her spiritual adviser. Addressing the governors of the Asian Development Bank and 1,200 international delegates two months after coming to power, she frankly declared, "I am not embarrassed...
...cease-fire was signed at Manila's Club Filipino, the sumptuous establishment in the suburb of Greenhills where President Aquino took her oath of office ten months ago. She was not present for the historic moment. Instead, along with her friend and adviser Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Manila, she attended a ceremony that morning marking what would have been her slain husband Benigno's 54th birthday...