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Gardner is based on a real character, a bright and ambitious young man who had everything required to succeed--except the right skin color. Do we believe he will triumph? Of course we do; they don't make major motion pictures about uninstructive failures. Do we care about Gardner and son? Oddly, we do, because they are so appealingly played. What more might we wish for them? A movie that's a lot less repetitive...
...thought we would succeed quicker than we did, and I am disappointed by the pace of success." PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, at a press conference with chief Iraq-war ally British Prime Minister Tony Blair, answering a question about whether he would acknowledge his failures and change course...
President Bush demonstrated that he has learned little if anything from history when he said that the main lesson of Vietnam is, "We'll succeed unless we quit." The Vietnam War was lost after 58,000 American troops and millions of Vietnamese civilians died over 14 years. More bombs were dropped on that tiny country than were used by all sides in all of World War II. That's giving up? The lessons of Vietnam are many, but chief among them are that invading forces cannot subdue a native population fighting a guerrilla war; that Americans will not support endless...
...Mafia bosses whose networks he was still prying into, for example, or rogue FSB officers who had been paid to rub him out by those who wanted to hurt Berezovsky. Perhaps the culprit was someone who wanted to frame Putin, or a member of the many factions maneuvering to succeed him when his term expires in 2008. One particularly dark theory making the rounds in Moscow was that Litvinenko organized his own death in a bizarre politically motivated suicide. Julia Svetlichnaja, a Russian postgraduate student who met with Litvinenko several times over the past year, last week described an erratic...
...Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday, where Connecticut Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman and Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins questioned one of their key recommendations: to open a diplomatic dialogue with Iran. "I'm skeptical that it's realistic to think that Iran wants to help the United States succeed in Iraq," Lieberman said...