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...Well, shortly into the proceedings at Cannes, the film stopped for real. My first thought was: Sheer brilliance! They're undermining the most basic cinema convention: that a movie proceeds uninterrupted from beginning to end. In fact, there had been a bomb threat; Cannes had a few of them in those days. The audience was shooed onto the sidewalk for a few minutes while police searched the theater, then readmitted to watch the rest of the film without further incident...
...establish democracy in the Middle East (whether Iraqis want it or not), we should at least allow the citizens of Iraq to enjoy the democratic right to select their own representatives. We should not dictate that the government be favorably disposed to us, as that would violate the basic tenets of the democracy we are ostensibly seeking to export to the Middle East. Bill Gottdenker Mountainside, New Jersey...
Along a rundown track on the outskirts of Cluj-Napoca, a small city in rural Transylvania, a construction site teems with laborers sawing wood, hammering nails and measuring angles. The tools are basic and the building plans simple, but the workers[an error occurred while processing this directive] are not what you might expect; it's a band of executives hailing from corporate heavies Whirlpool and Ikea, who've traveled to Romania from Italy and Sweden. The well-heeled workforce comes courtesy of Habitat for Humanity, a 30-year-old American-based charity that recruits volunteers to address the problem...
...Having a basic understanding of Albert Einstein's work with light waves, physics and quantum mechanics, I find it difficult to believe that we really can tell the distance light has traveled when we perceive it. I don't believe in the Big Bang any more than I buy the parting of the Red Sea. The supposed noise from the Big Bang could just be noise from everyday creation and destruction occurring in the universe. Unfortunately, a lot of science and religion has evolved into fantasies that provide grandiose explanations for questions that might never be answered. Richard Thomas Rowlett...
...Credits went where they belonged: "New banks immediately accomplished their basic function - that of extending credits to encourage budding businesses," says Ulf Wokurka, a former Deutsche Bank director and now cfo of Samruk, Kazakhstan's holding company that runs such giants as KazTelecom and oil and natural gas firm KazMunaiGaz. The state rapidly privatized over 10,000 trading, service and industrial firms. As often happened in post-Soviet countries, the best of these firms were sold off to insiders, shoring up the power bases of important clans. But the biggest economic engine was oil, and that required outside help. Says...