Word: anglo
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...made the crossover to writing and directing with 36 Chowringhee Lane, a film about marginalized Anglo Indians in India, which won the country's National Awards for best direction and best cinematography. Sen's subsequent movies have tackled a range of similarly weighty and political topics, including sati, the practice of widow sacrifice. As a result, she is often regarded as a feminist filmmaker, and she wears the tag uneasily. "I believe feminism is a part of humanism, and I am a humanist," she says...
Perhaps the "vigorous exchange" between Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac over agriculture policy put Vivendi CEO Jean-Rene Fourtou in the mood for an old-fashioned Anglo-French spat. It's tough to see why else Fourtou last week rejected Vodafone's €6.8 billion offer for Vivendi's stake in mobile-phone operator Cegetel. The sale could have eased Vivendi's crippling €19 billion debt. Just as importantly, to retain control of Cegetel Vivendi must now pre-empt Vodafone's bid for the shares held by BT and SBC, costing the cash-strapped company between...
...wealth. He thwarted efforts to reform the cap, and when Blair objected - noting that cap's trade barriers on food hurt poor African countries, about which the French President professes to care so deeply - Chirac told the British Prime Minister he was being rude and postponed next month's Anglo-French summit until early 2003. Chirac has come out firing to bolster the political, economic and cultural clout of Paris, to check the shift of the E.U.'s center of gravity to Berlin and to deflect attention from Washington. On some fronts he's fighting a losing battle. He took...
...truth is it is not. For all its rhetoric of being a caring company, Coke is offering far less treatment than other multinational corporations, when as the largest private employer in Africa it should be setting the bar. DeBeers now provides health coverage for life to its workers. Anglo (another mining company) has agreed to provide AIDS medication without cost to its workers for their period of employment...
...address to Labor delegates at their annual gathering, Clinton devoted a lengthy segment to Iraq. After thanking Prime Minister Tony Blair for his support with Operation Desert Fox in December 1998—a joint Anglo-American assault launched when Hussein threw out weapons inspectors—Clinton praised him for “trying to bring America and the rest of the world to a common position” over the past few months. Despite his kind words for Blair, Clinton stressed that a pre-emptive military strike “should always be a last resort...