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...important reform program. [The low poll numbers] will continue to the end of the year, but should rise again at the beginning of 2004 with a return of growth and employment. Given your commanding majority, some say you've been too timid in pursuing reforms. You mustn't block French society. People take to the streets easily in France, so you have to measure the capacity of the French for accepting reform. We will have achieved four big reforms by our first two-and-a-half years in office: pensions, health insurance, decentralization and education. All that plus the little...
...acting career. When this led to her breakdown, he left her alone in a suite at the Ritz Hotel to get through it. His relationship with his son, Matthew, was awkward and could also be cruel - he once held a hand up for an entire meal to block out the face of Matthew's new girlfriend. What really fascinates Read, however, is the possibility that Guinness was bisexual. He devotes page after page to reports of "lascivious" looks between the actor and some young stagehand, or diary entries of tantalizing ambiguity. But the author's defense of his quest - that...
...went up on every billboard, cinema screen and gallery wall until, as Groys puts it, "they completely altered and reorganized the visual space of an entire society." But, as the exhibition attests, artistic talent could occasionally shine through, transcending the intended ideology. Kazimir Malevich's 1928 Reapers, a bold, block-colored painting of three peasant women, is as stunning as the groundbreaking abstracts that made him famous in Czarist days. And Alexander Deineka's 1931 On the Balcony owes more to Bonnard or Matisse than to Stalin. But it is the affinity between Stalinist art and American commercial art that...
...heats up, candidates are earnestly courting their voting constituencies day in and day out. Labor interests, big business, soccer moms and senior citizens—every group has had its interests addressed. But one group—as usual—remains habitually ignored. Although a potentially powerful voting block, America’s college students are notorious for being absent at the voting booths on Election Day. Their apathy towards politics leads many political contenders to view college students with equal apathy. Young-adult issues are systematically ignored in campaign platforms as the divide between young people and political...
Wissam al-Zahawie stopped in his tracks when he heard President Bush's State of the Union speech last January. Iraq, the President announced, had attempted to purchase "yellowcake" - milled uranium oxide, the building block of nuclear-reactor fuel - from an African country. And for a country that had no nuclear energy program and a track record of seeking weapons of mass destruction, such a claim could mean only one thing: that Saddam Hussein had revived his clandestine nuclear weapons program. In the buildup to the war, that sounded like a smoking gun. If only it were true...