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...peace." Is that positive proof of the President's lack of awareness of how his country's recent actions are perceived internationally? I am not suggesting that the U.S. is a dictatorship, but it's ironic Bush noted that free nations prefer peaceful means. Callum Smellie Auckland, New Zealand The conclusion of your story assessing whether the U.S. can win the war in Iraq noted that in the short term the country might end up like Afghanistan, plagued by insurgents and with a weak government dependent on U.S. protection. That assessment was accurate. Since it is almost impossible to cobble...
...didn't take his act abroad until his college basketball career at Long Beach State ended, in 1988. At 6 ft. 2 in., he was too short to be an NBA prospect, so Ronzone played in leagues from Italy to the Philippines before becoming player-coach of New Zealand's Wonganui Wolfpack. Then, after an encounter with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, he became the first head coach of the Saudi national team. "It was right after the Gulf War in '91, so I hesitated," he recalls. "Then the prince offered to triple my salary." At the 1994 Goodwill...
...attitude to the ANZUS pact, which lost its N.Z. component in 1985. "We believe in the value of the alliance," Latham said. "We support the U.S. alliance 100%." To underscore the message, he named Kim Beazley - a former Defence Minister credited with holding the alliance together after New Zealand's exit - as Labor's defense spokesman, and yielded the microphone on foreign affairs to Kevin Rudd, a centrist well known and respected in Washington. "The calculation of the political hardheads in the party is that no Labor party can win an election in Australia on a position of anti-Americanism...
...Among observers who've scrawled an "F" on Latham's plan are those who believe he hasn't gone far enough in putting high-fee schools in their place. In the U.S., U.K. and New Zealand, governments give nothing to private schools, says Jane Caro, convener of the advocacy group Priority Public. Australia is probably too far down the opposite path to turn back, she says, "but I wish we'd never gone that way." Parents argue that because they save the public thousands of dollars a year per child by opting for private education, they're entitled...
...published next week (Thames & Hudson; 112 pages), Justin Paton likens Swallow to a hobby-shop Proust. "There's a sense in which Ricky's career looks less and less like a linear progression from one object to the next," says the curator of contemporary art at New Zealand's Dunedin Public Art Gallery. "It's much more like some circle of time, because he's always monkeying with chronology in interesting ways...