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THURSDAY: Oliver Twist. (1984) Alec Guinness and John Howard Davies in David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic make the recent "Oliver!" stick in your gulliver by comparison. With Anthony Newley as the Artful Dodger. CH...
...police have largely broken the organization in a punishing series of more than 650 arrests since 2000. Earlier this month, French police uncovered an eta bombmaking factory in the French village of Saint Michel, a few kilometers from the Spanish border. On Friday, French police arrested three men in Châtellerault, about 300 km southwest of Paris, possessing what outgoing Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes said were "prepared and assembled bombs." The end of the Aznar era also creates what Zabaleta calls "a very propitious atmosphere for a truce." In his speech last week presenting his program, the incoming...
Blocked Recall VENEZUELA At least eight people died in violence following the National Electoral Council's rejection of a petition calling for a referendum on Hugo Chávez's presidency. Although the opposition presented 3.1 million signatures in favor of the recall vote, the council declared only 1.8 million valid - 600,000 short of the threshold for triggering a ballot...
...lucky enough to be enjoying lunch in the hillside Provençal village of Bonnieux you can't do better than to order a bottle of pale pink Château La Canorgue, made just outside the village. Though the days when rosé was scorned are gone, the good stuff tends not to travel, and there's still some not-so-good stuff around (Saddam Hussein was said to be fond of Mateus rosé, a vestige of the bad old days). But now rosé is making a bid for the mainstream, as winemakers try to anticipate...
About Face VENEZUELA In an unexpected turnaround, President Hugo Chávez announced that he would accept the verdict - due in mid-February - of the National Electoral Council on the validity of an opposition petition for a recall vote. Organizers of the petition claim to have collected more than the 2.4 million signatures needed to trigger a vote, which might force Chávez to stand down...