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...they wanted them or not. While pioneer moviemakers like Harry Cohn, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer and Adolph Zukor retained Jewish-sounding names, they were "determined to avoid any hint of Jewishness in the films they created." Some notables avoided this identification so assiduously they seemed downright anti-Semitic. Walter Lippmann did so, refusing to become a member of (or even give a lecture to) any Jewish organization; and this Goliath among U.S. commentators chose never to write a single word about the Holocaust...
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev talked in Geneva through more complex lattices. They sat by the fire in the Château Fleur d'Eau and interpreted the world for each other through their distinctive mental grids--different societies, different interests, minds formed by different histories. Walter Lippmann wrote, "We are all captives of the pictures in our head--our belief that the world we experience is the world that really exists." Reagan explained America to Gorbachev. Gorbachev explained the Soviet Union to Reagan. Neither man was moved to defect as a result of the education. More useful than cross-cultural...
...what he thought would be a popular amendment to a defense-spending bill requiring the Air Force to submit a plan ensuring religious tolerance and full religious freedom at the academy. Opposition by the committee's Republican majority was so fierce that he withdrew it. Said Republican committee member Walter Jones: "I think we've got too much concern about political correctness." Jones is pressing for hearings on religious repression within the military--but he means repression of Christian expression, such as not permitting chaplains to offer public prayer "in Jesus' name." Tom Minnery, public-policy head of James Dobson...
...people to turn on George Bush's war in Iraq, Representative Walter Jones was among the least likely. A conservative Republican whose North Carolina district includes the massive Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune, Jones led the charge to convert French fries into "freedom fries" in Capitol Hill cafeterias after France refused to support the war. But last week Jones co-sponsored legislation calling on Bush to declare victory and start bringing the troops home by October 2006. Jones, who has written more than 1,300 letters to families of killed service members, says, "What else is there left for America...
...champion of Europe. And now that brand has been damaged." Prodi indicated last week that he would sacrifice his own ambitions if necessary for the good of the coalition: "The project comes before the roles, and the roles we'll decide together." Some are promoting Rome's Mayor Walter Veltroni, 49, as a fresher alternative. "Veltroni is a uniter. He's a classic big-tent candidate," says an opposition spokesman. And that's what may be needed to control the center-left circus. For the moment, Veltroni continues to express loyalty to Prodi, but if the older man steps aside...