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(CNN) -- Two former presidents reflected on their greatest regrets in office Monday, each looking back to issues that continue to plague the nation years later.

Former presidents and political rivals Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush now share philanthropic efforts.

Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton appeared together at a question-and-answer forum before the National Automobile Dealers Association in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Asked his biggest regret after leaving office, Bush said he now wonders whether he should have tried to get Saddam Hussein to leave office at the end of the first Gulf War in 1991.

He told the gathering, "I've thought a lot about it, but at the end of Desert Storm, the question was should we have kind of kept going on that road to death and all this slaughter until Saddam Hussein showed up and laid his sword on the table, surrendered. And the common wisdom was he wouldn't do that."

But he said a conversation with an FBI agent who interrogated Saddam after he was captured has made him reconsider.

Bush recalled their talk, "I said, 'What if we just say he has to come to surrender, would he have done it?' And this guy said, 'I'm absolutely convinced he would have.' My experts tell me he wouldn't have."

Bush said, "We ended it the way we said we would" as a military success, but noted a cleaner ending "would have been perfect."

He added, "If we had tried to get Saddam Hussein to come and literally surrender and put his sword on the table, I think it might have been avoided some of the problems that we did have in the future from him."
1. How many presidents are working together?
2. Who?
3. Where did they appear?
4. For what organization?
5. When?
6. When was the first Gulf War?
7. What does Bush regret?
8. Has he thought about it much?
9. What was the war's nickname?
10. Who said Saddam would surrender?

Numbered answers:
1. Two
2. Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush
3. New Orleans, Louisiana
4. National Automobile Dealers Association
5. Monday
6. 1991
7. he should have tried to get Saddam Hussein to leave office
8. Yes
9. Desert Storm
10. this guy

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CHAPTER VI.

NOT IN LOVE.

Reginald Morton, as he walked across the bridge towards the house, was thoroughly disgusted with all the world. He was very angry with himself, feeling that he had altogether made a fool of himself by his manner. He had shown himself to be offended, not only by Mr. Twentyman, but by Miss Masters also, and he was well aware, as he thought of it all, that neither of them had given him any cause of offence. If she chose to make an appointment for a walk with Mr. Lawrence Twentyman and to keep it, what was that to him? His anger was altogether irrational, and he knew that it was so. What right had he to have an opinion about it if Mary Masters should choose to like the society of Mr. Twentyman? It was an affair between her and her father and mother in which he could have no interest; and yet he had not only taken offence, but was well aware that he had shown his feeling.

Nevertheless, as to the girl herself, he could not argue himself out of his anger. It was grievous to him that he should have gone out of his way to ask her to walk with him just at the moment when she was expecting this vulgar lover,--for that she had expected him he felt no doubt. Yet he had heard her disclaim any intention of walking with the man! But girls are sly, especially when their lovers are concerned. It made him sore at heart to feel that this girl should be sly, and doubly sore to think that she should have been able to love such a one as Lawrence Twentyman.
1. Where was he walking?
2. What was he walking across?
3. Was he in a good mood?
4. and what is his name?
5. Was he happy with himself?
6. why?
7. By what?
8. Who had he shown that he was offended?
9. Had they given him reason to be upset?
10. Did he feel he should have been upset?
11. Who did he feel the affair should have been between?
12. Had he shown how he felt?
13. What had he asked her to do with him?
14. Did she go with him?
15. Why?
16. Did he think she was expecting him?
17. Did she admit to expecting him?
18. How did it make him feel that he thought she was being deceitful to him?
19. Who did she walk with?

Numbered answers:
1. towards the house
2. the bridge
3. no
4. Reginald Morton
5. He was very angry with himself
6. he felt he had made a fool of himself
7. his manner
8. Mr. Twentyman and Miss Masters
9. no
10. no
11. Mary and her father and mother
12. yes
13. to walk with him
14. no
15. she was expecting this vulgar lover
16. yes
17. no
18. sore at heart
19. Lawrence Twentyman

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(Entertainment Weekly) -- In the movies, "the suburbs" are never just a place. They're a state of mind, a mythology we all know in our bones.

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio share a happy moment in "Revolutionary Road."

The myth goes something like this: The suburbs are comfortable, maybe even beautiful, but their serenity is rooted in a friendly American conformity, so that the people who live there have to repress their true selves, which will emerge when they drink too much and have affairs, or rage at each other for their dishonesty, which was all caused in the first place by ... the suburbs.

The best thing about "Revolutionary Road," a cool-blooded and disquieting adaptation of Richard Yates' 1961 novel about a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple, is that it doesn't end with that rote vision of bourgeois anomie. It only begins there.

Frank and April Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) are about 30, with two kids, and both believe they can evade the traps of the existence they've chosen. The year is 1955, and Frank has a New York job that bores him, marketing business machines. He takes solace in feeling superior to his work, and also in his midday martinis and occasional dip into the secretarial pool. April, meanwhile, wanted to be an actress, and still feels she's meant for higher things. Watch DiCaprio and Winslet talk about their reunion "

Moved to reach for something more, April comes up with a plan: She and Frank will sell their home and move to Paris, where she'll work as a government secretary and he will ... find himself. (It's like a '60s fantasy a decade ahead of time.) "Revolutionary Road" was directed by Sam Mendes, who made the glibly scathing "American Beauty," only here he wants us to share not just Frank and April's misery but the frail reveries that hold them together.
1. What movie is the article about?
2. Who is the director?
3. Is this his first directing job?
4. What else has he done?
5. Is the movie an original screenplay?
6. Was it a book?
7. Who wrote the novel?
8. What year?
9. What is it about?
10. Who stars in the movie?
11. Why are they unhappy?
12. What do they do?
13. What characters do DiCaprio and Winslet play?
14. Do they have kids?
15. How many?
16. Does Frank Wheeler work?
17. What does he do?
18. What does April Wheeler do?
19. What do they decide to do?
20. What will that do?
Numbered answers:
1. Revolutionary Road
2. Sam Mendes
3. No
4. American Beauty
5. No
6. Yes
7. Richard Yates
8. 1961
9. a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple
10. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio
11. people who live in the suburbs have to repress their true selves
12. drink too much and have affairs
13. Frank and April Wheeler
14. Yes
15. two
16. Yes
17. marketing business machines
18. wanted to be an actress
19. She and Frank will sell their home and move to Paris
20. she'll work as a government secretary and he will ... find himself.