Word: bernard
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...were biased. Its fifth column consisted of snooty élitist media that disdained Bush's intelligence, faith and policies--a fixation culminating in Dan Rather's report, which questioned Bush's Guard service on the basis of documents that the network later had to acknowledge may have been forged. Bernard Goldberg, a former CBS correspondent and the author of Bias and Arrogance, two broadsides against liberal bias, says the suspect documents in the CBS report "made it through all their checkpoints. Why is that? Because they wanted it to be true." The media élite were even willing to endanger...
...French films like the 2001 smash hit Amélie fight American cultural hegemony. (Amélie star Audrey Tautou and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet are back with a World War I film, A Very Long Engagement.) The foundation of internationally successful writers like Amélie Nothomb and Bernard-Henri Lévy is, of course, their command of French. Rapper MC Solaar makes crafty, creative use of French lyrics. And Publicis ceo Maurice Lévy has assembled the globe's fourth-largest advertising network without diluting the agency's French flair. In all these cases, a willingness...
...danger of being thwarted by its regional nemesis, Japan, which has offered to pay for part of the multibillion-dollar project?so long as it terminates in the Russian port of Nakhodka, which is nearer Japan. Moscow seems inclined to take Japan's offer, and "China feels betrayed," says Bernard Cole, an expert at the National War College on China's oil needs...
...controversy began last December when Bernard Steinberg, the executive director of Harvard Hillel, announced Kudan’s departure in an open letter to the Hillel community. Kudan responded to the letter with one of his own, in which he said Steinberg’s announcement was the first time he had heard his departure confirmed...
Visiting professor of physics Bernard Julia, from Ecole Normale Supérieure in France, brings his wife and four children...