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'Red Tails'
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By Owen Gleiberman, EW.com
updated 1:11 PM EST, Fri January 20, 2012 -
"Red Tails" is a lavishly square historical drama about the Tuskegee Airmen. The movie has potent sequences of aerial combat that recall Tom Cruise and his fly boys. The actors really appear to be flying, giving the Airmen's brushes with the enemy a heart-in-the-throat quality. Read More
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The Political Scene: The Obama Memos
The making of a post-post-partisan Presidency.
by Ryan Lizza January 30, 2012 -
Hundreds of pages of internal White House memos show Obama grappling with the unpleasant choices of government. On a frigid January evening in 2009, a week before his Inauguration, Barack Obama had dinner at the home of George Will, the Washington Post columnist, who had assembled a number of right-leaning journalists to meet the President-elect. Accepting such an invitation was a gesture on Obama’s part that signalled his desire to project an image of himself as a post-ideological politician, a Chicago Democrat eager to forge alliances with conservative Republicans on Capitol Hill. That week, Obama was still working on an Inaugural Address that would call for “an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics.” Read more
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