Word: bernard
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...office, paging through a report of overnight news prepared by her press secretary, Bernard Ingham. She looks through the Financial Times, but generally only skims the other papers. In fact, Thatcher makes it a rule to skip nasty stories about herself. "You start to see your name and, if you know it's going to be horrid, then stop," she once said. "During the day, you have to take your decisions and concentrate your mind, and you can't if something is really hurtful...
...because many diplomats see that offensive as just one part of wider patchwork of cross-border African conflicts, some are intimating threats of additional peacekeeping operations as a means of making life harder on troublemakers in the region. "We are not involved in this war," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said as he welcomed people airlifted from Chad to Paris Monday. "For now, there's no change in that. But if there's a [United Nations] Security Council resolution, or if there was another suggestion [for a more active role] during an African Union summit...
Famous for both her acting and her political activism, this Oscar winner's latest drama, Bernard and Doris, airs Feb. 9 on HBO. Susan Sarandon will now take your questions...
...your favorite co-star? -J.A. Flores, Manila, PhilippinesOh wow. That is a little bit like Sophie's Choice, isn't it? Certainly, Ralph Fiennes [who plays Bernard in her new movie]. Natalie Portman. Sean Penn. When you are working with someone that good they take you to another place. I also had a great time with Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins on Bull Durham, as you could probably tell [Laughs...
...France is also keen to stress the E.U.'s mission neutrality. "It is a reconstruction mission, a development mission and a humanitarian one," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said, adding that that the aim was solely to protect displaced refugees, not to help Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno. Some Chadian rebels have expressed fears that the E.U. force is meant to help prop up Deby, a longtime ally of Paris, and have even threatened to attack the mission if it interferes with their rumbling insurgency...