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...halfway movie: too expensive (reportedly $61 million) to be relegated to art houses, too stiff and forbidding to appeal to any part of a mass audience. In its Cannes gestation it was presented in two parts (though neither part bore an official title here), each slightly more than two hrs.: The Argentine, which covers Guevara's role in Fidel Castro's 1958 campaign across the Cuban jungle, ending in the flight of President Batista and the ascendency of Castro (Demian Bichir); and Guerilla, detailing Che's failed, ultimately fatal attempt to bring revolution in Bolivia...
Lawson's new book is An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming
...familiar part belongs to Hillary Clinton, whose lopsided, 35-point victory in Kentucky will help her keep making the case that Obama cannot appeal to key working-class voters, but will leave her short of the pledged delegates she needs to secure the nomination. While she will likely valiantly fight on in the remaining contests of Montana, South Dakota and Puerto Rico, she will soon join the ranks of other Democratic also-rans, both from this cycle and cycles past, who lacked the money, staying power and delegate totals needed to keep their dreams for the top spot alive. Closing...
...Obama, who sits on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, has already won some support from many Iraq and Afghanistan vets who oppose the war in Iraq, and has been actively trying to expand his appeal to older veterans - though his efforts in that regard didn't help him in the primaries in veteran-heavy states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. To underline his own family's military pedigree, Obama plans a trip in coming weeks to the Punchbowl National Cemetery in Hawaii, where his grandfather, who served in World War II, is buried. Obama and McCain's G.O.P. rival...
...towns and villages, says Francis Matthey, a former socialist parliamentarian and currently President of the Federal Commission on Migration, "it would play right into the SVP's hands, because of the party's strong agrarian base." Under the current system a rejected candidate for citizenship has the right to appeal; the SVP wants any such decision to be irrevocable...