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...that Jan. 30 has voided the claim that resisting the American democratic project is in the service of the Iraqi people, it is time for Europe to look to its common interest in helping Iraq succeed. But don't ask for a Condoleezza Rice apology in return. No apology ought to or will be given. The U.S. may not be the world's most artful liberator. But it is hard to think of a more sincere one. Ask the 8 million Iraqis who for the first time in their lives enjoyed that singular democratic experience: the free and secret ballot...
...privations, such as his bad luck with lovers, to turn his life's story into an epic. Because its author has had a head start on other memoirists, Continents of Exile, now that it's done, gives us an advance preview of how far the memoir is likely to succeed in its quest for upward mobility...
...heart attack; in Piya, Togo. A former army colonel who came to power in a military coup in 1967, he was Africa's longest-serving ruler. With the threat of turmoil in the wake of his sudden death, Togo's military high command named his son Faure Eyadema to succeed...
Most people would leave questions like those as rhetorical and quietly tiptoe away, but Jared Diamond asks and relentlessly answers them in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Viking; 575 pages). Diamond, a professor of geography (surely an endangered species itself) at the University of California, Los Angeles, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for the best-selling Guns, Germs, and Steel, his attempt to understand how Western nations rose to political and technological pre-eminence (the title gives you a pretty good hint). In Collapse, he's a little like the title character in Dr. Seuss...
...change the political obstacles Bush faces in Washington. Republicans are still skeptical; Democrats are still opposed. So the President took his sales pitch on the road to five conservative states represented by Democrats in the Senate. His Cabinet will fan out across the country as well. Will they succeed? That may depend on how satisfied Americans are when they get answers to their questions about Bush's idea for reforming the biggest and most popular social program ever...