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...kept out of her apartment. Mr. Shi, fresh off the airplane, steps into a world unaffected by 9/11, where everyone he meets is friendly, kind, and eager to make conversation with a foreigner. Never is he met with a racist remark or uncharitable gesture. In fact, the only unkind words come from his own daughter. The man the audience meets is not the austere, reserved father who never talked about family problems that Yilan remembers from her childhood. Nor is he the stereotypical Asian father who comes from a patriarchal society and seldom cooks his own food. Rather...
There's another word for this naiveté: realism. Though he rarely admits it, President Bush has made realism the centerpiece of his second term, dispatching envoys to sit down with Sunni insurgents in Iraq, the Stalinist leadership in North Korea and the theocrats of Iran. The results have been mixed at best, and no one believes the Taliban will give up as soon as the U.S. breaks bread with them. But the alternative--endless conflict and occupation--is worse. The next President will take office in an age of dwindling resources, diminished U.S. influence and a public weary...
...Exchange Commission and a vastly strengthened Federal Reserve system. Complemented by the multilateral bodies that were spawned at the end of World War II, these institutions formed a latticework of stability and security on which the nation's and the world's economies grew so robustly that a new word, globalization, was coined to describe the results...
Gage: What people are trying to get at when they use the word temperament is something along the lines of instinct--how someone approaches a situation and particularly, I think, how someone approaches a crisis...
Smith: Post-Reagan, there's a whole school of thought that says the Coolidge model of the presidency at least can be taken seriously ... I have problems with this word because I find it terribly elusive. As a biographer, I'm tempted to say [temperament] is a distillation of life's experiences that leaves a residue, if you will ... There are Presidents for whom it is very easy to say what their temperament is. Harry Truman is a classic example. Probably Lyndon Johnson would be another example. Ronald Reagan [is another], but there are others for whom...