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Until last week, Bush had steered clear of the bully pulpit. He plays the man of action, not words, and has inherited his father's suspicion of gaudy soul searching. Where Bill Clinton seized every chance to open up his brain on national television, take you through every twist in his thought process, Bush has avoided every such opportunity. But that changed for a moment last week when he brought down the lights, turned up the volume and built the suspense around his decision, as if to say, I am a man capable of subtle thought, not just ideological reflex...
...foreigners, a local bureaucrat seized my shortwave radio from my hotel room, examining it to ensure that it wasn't a two-way spy communications device. A memo accidentally left behind in my room instructed officials to "politely refuse any request Mr. Ignatius may have to leave the hotel." Suspicion of the outside was deeply ingrained, particularly after the Cultural Revolution's xenophobic excesses...
...contradictory lunacies of command for Joseph Heller (Catch-22). This scarcely ever happened to American painters or sculptors. But to one in particular it did. It was war, as much as anything else, that made an artist out of H.C. (Horace Clifford) Westermann Jr., that imbued him with raucous suspicion of the "normal" life he was supposed to be defending and filled him with horrible sights, now bleak and now baroque, whose exorcism would become a lifetime task...
...pariah. Earlier this summer she hired Jack Palladino, a San Francisco-based private eye who worked for Bill Clinton in the Bimbogate scandals and Jeffrey Wigand in the Insider tobacco case. "My client had a belief there is a negative campaign against her," Palladino told TIME, "and the suspicion that Tommy Mottola was behind it... Her beliefs were well founded... My client is not going to be a victim. She is determined that this is going to end." Mottola and Sony have denied the charge...
...help local forces track down a supposed serial killer - arrested a 39-year-old married builder. ISRAEL Voice of Reason Palestinians fought each other over the arrest of militants in the Gaza Strip. Gunmen fired on Palestinian security forces in Gaza City after Hamas members were picked up on suspicion of violating the cease-fire. To counter the violence, a group of 100 leading Israeli and Palestinians, including former Israeli cabinet minster Yossi Beilin and Palestinian Information Minister Abed Rabbo, signed a joint declaration calling for the resumption of peace talks. GREECE A Myth Finds Substance in the Hills...