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...quote a senior Asian official in your article: "they talk to each other endlessly," and, "they are very clubby." To be honest, worse things can be said about a union between nations that had been at war with each other for the better part of two millennia. All in all, I am happy that the E.U. is beautifully diverse and relatively humble. (Read: "The Incredible Shrinking Europe...
Heribert Hutterer, Vienna I am very glad that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld had no phone number for a person capable of leading the whole of Europe into the Iraq war. It was enough that they had Tony Blair's number...
...Hanks deserves our admiration, but is he really our "chronicler in chief" [March 15]? I've been reading World War II history for more than 50 years, and when I read that Hanks thinks the writing of academic historians is "often too dull to grab regular people by the lapel," I flashed on the works of Rick Atkinson, Richard Bessel, Martin Gilbert, Richard Overy and a hundred other academic historians who have made the war real, capturing both its grand scale and its smallest details...
Because Fanning has always been so good at playing perfect little girls in adult situations, from I Am Sam to The War of the Worlds, she has sometimes been branded as robotic or under some sort of unnatural control. The truth is, she's like a mini--Meryl Streep, so deft and true that people take the perfection for granted and stop noticing the work. It's obvious here that she's the one in control. A movie like The Runaways, showcasing both her gifts and the pitfalls of young fame, makes you hope she stays that...
...bogus" charge of engaging in politics while in uniform. Fonseka, arrested after losing a January election to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, says the detention is intended to prevent him from winning a seat in April's parliamentary elections. The two former allies are credited with ending the nation's civil war with the Tamil Tigers...