Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.
Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

