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...that goodwill dissipated. "Obama has to avoid repeating the mistake we made back then," said one Labour MP. "We were too cautious, and we wasted our first term when we should have been doing big, bold things with our majority." It's a point that Labour Cabinet Minister Shaun Woodward made more obliquely. Obama, he said, "is not only making history but learning from it." There's that H word again. But as the whole world turns its gaze on one man, the term seems entirely...
...Last year, an old college friend of Kingsmill's, Bret Merriman, suggested they go after Mambo. At that stage interest was high, and Kingsmill thought they'd be priced out. As a successful footwear importer, Merriman, along with the third director, accountant Anthony Woodward, assembled the consortium and invested heavily in it. They wanted Kingsmill as frontman for two reasons. One was his grasp of the surf industry. For three years from 1999, Kingsmill was general manager of beachculture, a retail chain that grew on his watch from eight to 21 stores in Australia and New Zealand...
...article "Crash Course" [Oct. 6] with the words "Golf carts are fun little buggers." If Mr. Gregory or the editors of TIME had checked a dictionary for the correct definition of the word "bugger," your readers would not have been subjected to such cheap, inaccurate and irresponsible journalism. Peter Woodward, MIERLO, NETHERLANDS
Perino, Dana • cites Bush quote "I will be making the decisions" to refute Woodward charge that he was detached from Iraq war management...
...usual, Woodward empties his notebooks, delivering the delicious quotes ("I'm a Socratic Method person," says Bush) and analysis (Woodward claims the reduction in violence owes as much to covert operations against extremists as to the surge) that we've come to expect--and frankly, demand--from his work. A better first draft of history might be difficult to find...