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...once dominant Bush hard-liners, including the Vice President, appear increasingly isolated within the Administration. An intense internal debate has erupted over whether new Pentagon procedures for handling captured terrorists should adopt the Geneva Conventions' ban on cruel and degrading treatment. A senior Administration source says National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and top military officers favor including the Geneva standards, while Cheney has managed to round up only a few senior Pentagon civilians, such as Under Secretary of Defense Stephen Cambone, to back his opposition to them. Adding to the pressure is the growing international...
...Stephen Colbert is sitting in his office, cutting up a take-out salad and telling me what a total jerk Stephen Colbert is. He's a hypocrite. A blowhard. Pompous, superficial and vain. He is "poorly informed but highly opinionated." Colbert is speaking about his on-air persona, the pundit and star of The Colbert Report, the spin-off of Comedy Central's hit fake-news series The Daily Show. Still, after a while, he stops himself. "I think I need to start calling him Col-bear," says the actor, using the correct pronunciation of his surname...
...Snapper A fractious Dublin family faces an awkward fact: the eldest daughter is soon to give birth to an illegitimate baby. This crowded, wayward, funny film, written by Roddy Doyle and directed by Stephen Frears, is a hymn to family values without any of the usual piety. It gives Colm Meaney, as the $ emotionally hard-pressed father, the role of a lifetime...
MANAGING EDITOR: James R. Gaines DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR: John F. Stacks EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Richard Duncan ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS: Joelle Attinger, James Kelly, Christopher Porterfield EDITOR AT LARGE: Kurt Andersen EDITORIAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR: Oliver Knowlton SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Howard Chua-Eoan, James Collins, Nancy R. Gibbs, S.C. Gwynne, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Priscilla Painton, Barrett Seaman, Claudia Wallis ART DIRECTOR: Rudolph C. Hoglund GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Nigel Holmes DESIGN DIRECTOR: Arthur Hochstein...
...Baghdad. I’ll leave the comparable horror of nuclear disaster up to your imagination. From the single-tear no-friends tenor of your note, I bet you read sci-fi. You probably have braces too. Anyway, if you’re going to complain, write to Stephen Fee. Yours, The FM Ethicist