Last things (Guardian Unlimited) A strangely prophetic sense of mortality and fragility pervades Michael Dibdin's final work End Games. Mark Lawson bids farewell to the food-loving, troubled but essentially decent Italian cop, Aurelio Zen....more...New view on real estate (The Australian) IN the absence of almost anything vaguely interesting to watch on free-to-air television, I've become obsessed with LifeStyle Channel's prime-time property blitz, which showcases one of TV's most unusual and fascinating archives of cultural memory....more... Cruise's Scientology Stirs Ire in Berlin (The San Francisco Examiner) BERLIN ( Map , News ) - Two hot-button issues in Germany - the Nazi era and Scientology - are being pushed simultaneously by a new film in which Tom Cruise plays the country's most-famous anti-Hitler plotter, sparking controversy in Berlin....more... Remarks by the President to the Naval War College (The Standard-Times) THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, all. Please be seated. Thanks for the warm welcome. Thanks, Governor; appreciate you ? go find a nice seat. (Laughter.) I am really pleased to be among the best and brightest of the United States military. (Applause.) And... ...more... Transcript of the president's remarks at the War College (The Providence Journal) President Bush addresses the Naval War College in Newport, June 28, 2007....more... President Bush Visits Naval War College, Discusses Iraq, War on Terror (White House News) President Bush on Thursday said, "The stakes are high in the beginning stages of this global war against ideologues that stand for the exact opposite of what America stands for. And what makes the war even more significant is that what happens overseas matters to the security in the United States of America, as we learned on September the 11th, when killers were able to use a failed state to plot ......more... Remarks by President Bush to the Naval War College (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) The following is a transcript of remarks by President Bush to the Naval War College:...more... Remarks by the President to the Naval War College (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) NEWPORT, R.I.----Connelly Hall...more... `M-A-S-H's' Larry Gelbart wins Humanitas Prize (The San Francisco Examiner) LOS ANGELES ( Map , News ) - Larry Gelbart, whose writing for the war sitcom "M-A-S-H" defined television in the 1970s, collected his second Humanitas Prize for screenwriting on Tuesday: this time for his lifelong career....more... |