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LIKE the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President Bush may be the last person in the country to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over. "We will stay the course," he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch. What do you mean we, white man? A president can't stay the course when his own citizens (let alone his own allies) won't stay with him. The approval rate for Mr. Bush's handling of Iraq plunged to 34 percent in last weekend's Newsweek poll - a match for the 32...

Gyllenhaal & Bello in Oliver Stone's 9/11 Film Source: Variety July 29, 2005 Maggie Gyllenhaal and Maria Bello will portray the wives of Port Authority officers rescued from the World Trade Center in the Paramount's untitled Oliver Stone project, reports Variety. Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena had been previously announced as filling the respective roles of Sgt. John McLoughlin and Officer William J. Jimeno. The trade says Stone is expected to start shooting the film, based on Andrea Berloff's script, this fall in New York. Jimeno and McLoughlin were among the many rescuers who risked their lives Sept. 11, 2001,...