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...American politicians would be in prison because they sell their votes," he told Belgian leader Jean-Luc Dehaene and, unwittingly, Canadian broadcaster CBC. In 1993, British PM John Major had finished a TV interview but tapes were still running when he vented his anger against three Euro-skeptic rebels in his Cabinet. He called them "bastards" and promised to "crucify them." French President Jacques Chirac heated up the old Anglo-Franco rivalry at a 2005 summit in Russia. Unaware that a French journalist still had a microphone switched on, Chirac joked with German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Russian...
...play upon people's fears. If there is a shred of possibility of a dirty-bomb attack, the media will report the possibility without knowing the odds. The media want to be fair to both sides, but they should attempt to get at reality. I'm a threat skeptic. The organizations we're facing now aren't military-like. They're much less organized. The training camps are virtual. I suspect they're much less likely to acquire and deliver WMD than al-Qaeda was in its heyday. I fear we lack public information to have this debate. And without...
...neoconservatives have begun to renounce the decision to topple Saddam Hussein three years ago. William F. Buckley Jr., as close to a conservative icon as America has, recently wrote that "one can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed." George F. Will has been a moderate skeptic throughout. Neoconservative scholar Francis Fukuyama has just produced a book renouncing his previous support. The specter of Iraq teetering closer to civil war and disintegration has forced a reckoning...
...SKEPTIC MIGHT SAY THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT TO DO FIVE OR 10 YEARS AGO, BUT NOW YOU'VE GOT IRAQ AND A GENERAL PERCEPTION THAT AMERICA IS NOT A FRIEND TO MUSLIMS AROUND THE WORLD. I recognized going in that this is the work of decades, not of months or weeks. Bringing a cleric or a coach who perhaps was very anti-American to America, having them go home with perhaps a different view--that's not going to show up in a public-opinion poll in the next year. I told my staff this morning, "Sometimes I feel...
Garbo's centenary this September made lots of people remember that she was once considered a great actress. This set offers irrefutable proof: 10 features packed with enough glamour and bold genius to leave any skeptic awestruck. See her ignite the screen in Ernst Lubitsch's divine comedy Ninotchka or the Dumas melodrama Camille--made in 1939 and still the most astonishing display of star acting the movies ever recorded...