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I find little to cavil about Newsweek‘s sympathetic profile of Angelina Jolie (“look, she’s gone from Billy Bob Thornton’s ex to being good at acting, adopting and international public diplomacy!”) Well, OK, there is this rather odd section: Earlier this month Jolie was invited to join the Council on Foreign Relations, the elite club for ...
I find little to cavil about Newsweek's sympathetic profile of Angelina Jolie ("look, she's gone from Billy Bob Thornton's ex to being good at acting, adopting and international public diplomacy!") Well, OK, there is this rather odd section: Earlier this month Jolie was invited to join the Council on Foreign Relations, the elite club for the American foreign-policy establishment. It's no room for lightweights. Her fellow members include Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Jimmy Carter, Diane Sawyer and Bill Clinton. To my dying day, I will be vexed by one of two possibilities: 1) Reporter Sean Smith sees Diane Sawyer as a foreign policy heavyweight; 2) An editor at Newsweek read Smith's draft and though,"not enough heavyweights... better add Diane Sawyer."
I find little to cavil about Newsweek‘s sympathetic profile of Angelina Jolie (“look, she’s gone from Billy Bob Thornton’s ex to being good at acting, adopting and international public diplomacy!”) Well, OK, there is this rather odd section:
Earlier this month Jolie was invited to join the Council on Foreign Relations, the elite club for the American foreign-policy establishment. It’s no room for lightweights. Her fellow members include Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Jimmy Carter, Diane Sawyer and Bill Clinton.
To my dying day, I will be vexed by one of two possibilities:
1) Reporter Sean Smith sees Diane Sawyer as a foreign policy heavyweight; 2) An editor at Newsweek read Smith’s draft and though,”not enough heavyweights… better add Diane Sawyer.”
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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