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...love. Martin, played by the affable film actor Bill Pullman is a successful architect who enjoys a still passionate marriage to Stevie, portrayed by the Tony and Academy Award-recipient Mercedes Ruehl. They have a lovely modern apartment, a lovely gay son and a lovely well-financed lifestyle. The applecart is violently upset, however, when it is revealed Martin is having an affair. With Sylvia. Who is a goat...
...becoming friendly with Russia?) Do you think Saudi Arabia is upset by this? The whole economic structure of the Middle East will change if America gets most of its oil elsewhere. Maybe bin Laden saw this as the final straw: the U.S. once again upsetting the applecart in the Middle East. BILL BURNS Fulton...
...Pope's speeches were well-crafted humanitarian statements amplifying the Palestinians' need without upsetting the applecart. Arafat's wife Suha, a devout Catholic prior to her marriage who still decorates the walls of her Gaza apartment with photos of John Paul, claimed that the Holy Father's very presence was "a clear message for an independent Palestinian state." In fact, the Pope had neither mentioned a Palestinian "state" nor commented about the future of Jerusalem. Haim Ramon, Israeli Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, declared that "what the Pope said today is totally acceptable to Israeli governments" under accords long signed...
...release of the 11,000-word report seems almost designed to upset the political applecart in the U.S.--in the many diplomatic meetings since the May bombing, some of which discussed Taiwan at length, no mention was made by Chinese officials of the shift in policy. Perhaps the U.S. should have expected some kind of "February surprise" before the Taiwanese elections; after all, the last time Taiwan had presidential elections, in 1996, China fired missiles off the Taiwan coast in a none-too-subtle warning...
...firm seeks to upset the applecart of a multibillion-dollar international telecommunications deal (Money Daily...