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Clinton has the intelligence to conduct an effective foreign policy, and he did not come to the presidency unfamiliar with the wider world. He studied at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and later at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and was once on the staff of J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is a quick study, and when he does focus -- as when preparing to meet foreign leaders, for which he crams like a student facing a tough exam -- can be quite impressive. But he rarely does focus that way. He gets...
Middlemarch has such a tangle of subplots that viewers unfamiliar with the novel may find themselves in need of a trot to avoid getting lost. As usual with BBC productions, the atmospherics and costumes are spot on and the performances are consistently competent. Aubrey, a grave, wide-eyed newcomer, stands out as a luminous Dorothea...
...government agencies with access to the "keys" to Clipper could arbitrarily "scan through any piece of data they deem necessary," perhaps "in the name of national security." His first error is in believing that this situation is new and unique to the Internet. Evidently, Mr. Liu is unfamiliar with the concept of a phone...
Malin says some criticism of the game iswarranted. But he adds that many American sportswriters--many of whom are unfamiliar withsoccer--have hurt the sport in this country byneedlessly bashing...
...between good and bad often cross. Two years ago, director Oliver Stone was excoriated in the press for playing fast and loose with certain facts in JFK. Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father has largely escaped such criticism in the U.S., but only because Americans are unfamiliar with the story it is based on. In Britain, where people have lived with the case of the Guildford Four for 20 years, the film's reception has been considerably stormier...