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...Lowdown: For anyone who's followed the news closely over the last eight years, or looked into the history of our 43rd president, there are no real revelations to be found in W. But what may surprise both Bush experts and newcomers alike is the breadth of sources used in constructing this piece of historical fiction. Taken on its own, the "W. Film Guide" is a useful hub of Bush anecdotes, psychoanalysis and chronology, charting the rise and fall of this unlikely world leader...
...crisis forcing global leaders to rethink the basic framework of the world's financial system, it's probably not the best of times for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to be mired in internal scandal. Yet even as French President Nicolas Sarkozy got the backing of U.S. President George W. Bush Saturday to organize a summit to reform the international financial rules that the IMF oversees, the world discovered that the organization's French managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is being investigated for possible abuses of power. The findings of that inquiry - expected later this week - will not only shape...
Before boarding a plane on Saturday to meet President George W. Bush, French President Nicolas Sarkozy proclaimed, "Europe wants it. Europe demands it. Europe will get it." The "it" here is global financial reform, and evidently Sarkozy won't have to wait long. Just hours after their closed-door meeting had finished, Bush and Sarkozy, along with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, issued a joint statement announcing that a summit would be held next month to devise what Barroso calls a "new global financial order...
There is one final grand gesture open to George W. Bush to redeem his presidency - sell Alaska back to the Russians. Immediately. Oliver McQuillan, DUBLIN...
Trickle-Down Gluttony Kudos to Nancy Gibbs on her essay [Oct. 13]. As an early baby boomer, I was raised on the stories of thrift and sacrifice that came from my parents, who had grown up during the Depression and World War II. When George W. Bush suggested that the way to be patriotic after 9/11 was to go shopping, I was appalled. We have seen that message repeated over and over - including two incentive checks from our government so we could spend even more money we didn't really have. So excuse me if I have a hard time...