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That's where Gore has always had problems. Someone on his staff once had to tell him, "Sir, people think you clap funny. Put your fingers together." His pedantic style more often enervates than inspires. Last week in Sioux Falls, S.D., he drained the energy from a gymnasium full of 600 elementary schoolers by quizzing them on the merits of smaller class size. Four days later in New Hampshire, he numbed an expectant audience, which had come to hear about long-term health care, by opening his presentation with a long, awkward tutorial on Kosovo...
Hillen likes to quote an old professor of his. "The United States should recall historian Sir Michael Howard's three rules for intervening in civil wars," he says. "First, do not. Second, if you do, pick a side. Third, pick the side that will win and make sure that it does." Flaunting those rules, NATO began to see last week, could become costly...
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...Sir John Maddox is the author of What Remains to Be Discovered
...Everyone Says I Love You) to thesemi-reformed white supremacist of the year'sAmerican History X. Though the performancewas intense and thrilling, the Academy probablystill feels that Norton is a bit too green for anOscar. Not to worry. He'll be back before you knowit.Ian McKellen, Gods and Monsters: Sir Iancomes from a prestigious tradition of Londontheater and film, and has firmly establishedhimself Stateside as one of the top Shakespeareanactors--a master of his craft. His performance inGods and Monsters, as the aging, gayfilmmaker James Whale, was superb. But like Nolte,he may suffer due to the film...