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...much power to shape the words of President George W. Bush in the last five years as his speechwriter, Michael J. Gerson. When you hear the president use terms such as “axis of evil” or “soft bigotry of low expectations,” you are hearing Gerson’s handiwork. Gerson—a former presidential speechwriter and top adviser who left the White House mid-June—is at Harvard this week as a Visiting Fellow for the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government...
...government’s fault.” Reviews of Woodward’s latest book have remarked on its apparent departure from the previous two in the series, which critics say were more sympathetic toward Bush and his staff. Last night, however, Woodward denied having gone soft on the Bush administration. “You can see the seeds of denial in the previous two [books],” Woodward said, and likened the process of reporting on the war to delivering a “play-by-play” or “peeling the onion...
...soft-sided bags, opt for materials like ballistic or Cordura nylons, which stand up to slashing and tearing better than leather or canvas. They also provide more protection from weather. The REI Tech Beast ($215) is made of abrasion-, moisture- and tear-resistant ballistic nylon, and the wear points are reinforced with Hypalon patches to better bear rough-and-tumble conditions. The luxe new Tourbach line from Victorinox Swiss Army ($260-$700) boasts a Swiss-engineered fabric called Performax that is tearproof and grime and water repellent...
Hard-shell bags offer additional protection to fragile belongings and any containers of liquids that you were forced to check. Japanese designer Hideo Wakamatsu's brightly colored scratch-resistant trolley cases ($200-$300) feature smooth magnetic locks and four soft, silent polyurethane wheels recessed into the frame to avoid damage in transit. For travelers with nothing to hide, his Skeleton trolley ($400) is made of superstrong, see-through thermoplastic framed in anodized aluminum...
Oliver O?Grady is a slender, soft-spoken man wandering around Dublin in his windbreaker, the very picture of a retiree living on a modestly fixed income with, perhaps, not quite enough useful activity to occupy an intelligent and still active mind. At first glance he appears to be a pretty standard and uninteresting type; you would pass him in the street without giving him a second thought. If you spoke to him, as documentary director Amy Berg lengthily did, you would find him to be rather bland and affectless, not particularly forthcoming about his long and astonishing career...