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...concern for their integration. They were housed in huge, cheap unconnected buildings outside the main cities and offered no opportunity to work. The result? Thousands of uneducated people lived in isolation in indecent conditions. Those housing projects turned into lawless cities in which gangs ruled by threat, violence and blackmail. The police, much less firefighters, doctors and nurses, did not dare enter. The French integration model is a fraud. The various steps that the state has taken and that are going to cost the taxpayers billions of dollars will temporarily mend the situation. But in the long term...
Directed by Mikael HåfströmThe Weinstein Company1/2 starBad things happen when people cheat in relationships: break-ups and divorces; sexual and emotional inadequacies; listening to Coldplay. Rarely though, does infidelity lead to life-threatening blackmail by a French thug or the martyrdom of The Wu-Tang Clan’s The RZA. In my limited experience, at least.However in “Derailed,” the appallingly bad star vehicle for post-“Friends” Jennifer Aniston and never-Bond Clive Owen, anything is possible.The “thrilling” plot?...
...advised. The central scene of the movie, which is destined for infamy (although it is actually less graphic than other sex scenes in the film), features a three-way between Morris, Collins, and Maureen in which Collins’s attraction to Morris becomes apparent and Maureen gains some blackmail material. It seems that the central motivations for all the characters ought to hinge on that scene; however, rather than strike a deeper psychological chord or provide a plot twist, the scene ends up only tangential to the resolution of the film. As a duo, Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth...
...that America should do everything it can to maintain its primacy. But as well as summarizing the ways different administrations have chosen to use America’s power, Walt charts the ways other countries deal with American primacy. From North Korea’s nuclear “blackmail,” to the 2001 “Friendship Pact” between Russia and China, to the influential Israeli, Indian and Armenian lobbies in Washington, other states have found many ways to undermine or take advantage of America’s immense power. Walt’s reasons...
...well as policy, differences, too. There was some early friction last week when Kaczynski said that if the Civic Platform took all the top government posts, there would be no coalition. "A compromise is possible," snapped Bronislaw Komorowski, a senior Civic Platform leader, "but not on the basis of blackmail that someone has a right to this or that post." It was opposition to communism that brought together a disparate group of socialists, free marketeers, intellectuals, dockworkers, lawyers and university professors to found Solidarity a quarter of a century ago. Now members of that group have a chance to transform...