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...Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is an able statesman who leads a simple life [Sept. 27]. As one of the most capable Prime Ministers India has had in a long time, Singh will get things done in a cool and calm manner. He is not one to lose his temper. I am hopeful that during his term in office he will make India a country to be reckoned with. M. Shakir Khaleel Bangalore, India...
...people - but he's doing it in a peculiarly Australian way, using the vernacular and mundane experiences to connect. Last February, when he began a series of community forums ("democracy in the raw," he calls it) at the Central Coast Leagues Club in Gosford, N.S.W., Latham immediately caught the temper of the crowd. How wonderful it was to be back in "God's own country," he said. The people of the "Coast" lapped it up; this line wasn't crafted by a spin doctor or slipped in by a local party hack. He knew the region, its history...
...Spiegelman's slow, agonizing recovery from the day's trauma, made more difficult by a deeply ingrained paranoia and pessimism, becomes the book's emotional and narrative core. Created over the course of two years, he uses the strips to temper, if not actually resolve, his stress. While the early ones recount the agonizing moments of day - hearing the roar of the impact, retrieving his daughter from her nearby middle school, watching as the second tower collapses - the later strips are more abstract. Spiegelman laments what he sees as the co-opting of September 11 to justify further polarizing acts...
...stern ideals and prickly temper shortened some of his work stints: as editor of the left magazine Mother Jones (a job that lasted less than a year) and author of Moore's Weekly, a newsletter that critiqued the media and was partly financed by Ralph Nader. Maybe only a tough man could make such confrontational comedies. He has won the allegiance of one tough man, Weinstein, who says, "Michael walks to his own beat. He has to when he wakes up every day and has a new death threat. I love the guy, and I'm not saying that 'Hollywood...
...Secretary of Defense doesn't do his standing naked, continuously, in the middle of the night, surrounded by hostile guards and attack dogs. But then, Rumsfeld's blustery testosteronics are at the heart of what has gone wrong with the Bush foreign policy--and last week the assorted temper tantrums appeared to be a leading indicator of a gathering summer storm confronting this presidency...