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...self-effacing and deftly observed political memoir likely to come out of the 1980s. What I Saw at the Revolution succeeds because it violates every rule of corridors-of-power autobiography. As Noonan explains at the outset, "Most White House books have been written by men and have an unspoken subtitle: What I Did with Power. Many have another: If Only They'd Listened to Me, the Fools! But I didn't have much power, and sometimes if they'd listened to me they would have been wrong...
...toward Noriega. Nonetheless, no Latin nation would immediately recognize the Endara government, and Peru recalled its Ambassador to Washington in protest. The Soviet Union denounced the invasion as a violation of international law but hastily added that it saw no reason why that should damage East-West relations. The unspoken message seemed to be that Moscow would recognize a sphere of influence in which the U.S. could operate with a free hand so long as Washington returned the favor...
...large problem facing the domestic-partnership movement is a practical one: major U.S. insurance companies have thus far refused to offer group plans that include coverage for unmarried partners, partly because of the unspoken fear that the pool would include a higher proportion of gay males at risk for AIDS. In West Hollywood when the city decided to provide health coverage to its employees' domestic partners, no insurance company would underwrite the business. The city had to resort to self-insurance. So far that has resulted in a drop in costs, but it has not yet encouraged leading insurance companies...
...harm one of the kings of international terrorism? That has the U.S. impoverishing a whole country (Panama) through the blunt instrument of economic sanctions because we deny ourselves the use of a more surgical tool? One defense of the assassination ban is cynical. It is part of an unspoken agreement that brings a bit of order to the international chaos by ruling out one especially messy technique of war. Explicitly limiting the ban to heads of state would be too openly cynical, but the deal in essence is: You don't kill our leader, we won't kill yours. National...
...forces the girl's grandmother Mamaw (Peggy Rea) to face the feelings that she too has denied since her son's death. These are superb performances as well: Willis has never employed his alert reserve to better effect; Rea perfectly catches both the refrigerator-tidying comedy and the unspoken yearnings of an American Everymom...