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...September, the race was too close to call. Feeling stymied and outspent, the typically blunt-spoken Gorton believes the occasion actually calls for campaign-finance deregulation. "In a race like this, I should be able to raise more than $1,000 per individual," he says. "Especially individuals from Microsoft...
...September, the race has been too close to call. Feeling stymied and outspent, the typically blunt-spoken Gorton believes the occasion actually calls for campaign-finance deregulation. "In a race like this, I should be able to raise more than $1,000 per individual," he says. "Especially individuals from Microsoft...
...believes in the rule of law." And while Kostunica doesn't hide his disdain for U.S. officials, he is eager to normalize relations with the E.U. and join European institutions such as the Stability Pact--which binds members to cooperation and nonaggression--all of which would impel him to blunt his nationalist impulses. Says a hopeful Stojan Cerovic, a columnist at the Yugoslav newsmagazine Vreme: "There's no way anyone will become an aggressor again from Belgrade...
...thing that I brought to it was the fact that I knew guys like Leon when I was younger. That's where I came up with the Courvoisier as his drink, and the fact that he likes romantic candles, and the fact that his advice is much more blunt than you would expect. We sort of just played with the idea that his advice had worked for him, but it might not necessarily work for other people. So when he tells women to go hang out at a bus station with no underpants, it's just something that he knows...
...musicals of the '40's and '50's, von Trier uses the song and dance to further the exploration of his characters, a fragmentation or parallel universe, rather than an instrument of frivolity or light-heartedness. Bjork's performance and singing are stunning (if one is lenient toward her blunt acting style), and her voice carries one into her vulnerable and fragile sphere; all one needs to do is follow her into the depth of the notes that resonate, creating a fascinating world around...