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...failed to devise a strategy to thwart Kim's ambitions before he realizes them. Many Korea watchers in Washington say the White House's rhetorically bellicose approach toward Pyongyang--underlined recently by Bush's declaration that "I loathe Kim Jong Il," made to the Washington Post's Bob Woodward--has heightened the regime's paranoia about a U.S. attack and accelerated its nuclear rush. Says Derek Mitchell, who worked on Asia policy in the Clinton Pentagon: "People talk about North Korea being crazy, but it's not. It's purely rational for a nation with no assets being threatened...
Like many other actors who have become Hollywood icons, Newman thinks he would have led a worthier life if he had done more theater. So he chose to make his return to the stage (in a production first seen at the Westport Country Playhouse, where his wife Joanne Woodward is artistic director) in Our Town, Thornton Wilder's oft produced slice of Americana, which is given some 350 stagings around the country each year. As the Stage Manager--the fourth-wall-bursting narrator who introduces us to the town of Grover's Corners and its bashful young lovers, George Gibbs...
...criticized both Bob Woodward from the Washington Post and Seymour Hersh from the New Yorker, two of the “big-names” in journalism who he said “cavalierly” revealed national concerns “no rational journalist would reveal...
Most successful is Woodward’s use of anecdotes. Two days after 9/11, for example, Bush refuses to evacuate the White House and insists instead on a hamburger. Noting Bush’s penchant for healthy living, Woodward jokes that the request is a sign of Bush’s acceptance of fate and quotes Bush counselor Karen Hughes: “Well, you might as well have cheese...
...exclusive access that allows Woodward to recount such stories, however, makes us doubt the authenticity of his account. We do not know if he has truly bypassed the administration’s de facto blanket on information about the war. His privileged access to key players may have enabled him to get a story that the rest of his colleagues could not, but it also means that his story is circumscribed by what the administration chose to reveal...