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...people always like going overseas to ask for help. Clowns!" AN MIN, Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce, deriding three Hong Kong legislators for attending a U.S. Senate hearing on democracy in Hong Kong and meeting with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell...
Still, the Americans aren't eager to see a democratically elected President deposed by force. Several U.S. efforts to resolve the conflict have gone nowhere. The rebels and opposition politicians rejected peace proposals put forward by Secretary of State Colin Powell because they didn't include Aristide's departure. That prompted some of them to refer to Powell as Pa we-l, Creole for "he doesn...
...such as The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain and Far and Away, as well as the Star Trek series, where he played Chief Miles Edward O’Brien. He will introduce Intermission, in which he portrays a hotshot detective in pursuit of Colin Farrell’s petty criminal Lehiff. Tickets $10. 7:30 p.m. Brattle Theatre...
History has a way of repeating itself. On Sunday, Jean Bertrand Aristide, the democratically elected president of Haiti, was deposed in the second coup of his political career. The future appears bleak. Despite Colin Powell’s assurance that they “want to put down their arms,” the rebels—led by death-squad veterans and former members of the brutal military government that ruled Haiti from 1991 to 1994—have yet to disarm. What brought Haiti to this tragic pass? Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) put the matter bluntly, asserting...
...from a film culture that has resisted commercialization. In order to grab a bigger slice of Europe's box-office takings (which in 2002 were €5.6 billion), directors and producers need to better understand the business of moviemaking. "It's the perpetual struggle between art and commerce," says Colin Vaines, executive vice president of European production and development at Miramax. "In Europe, where there is such an auteurist culture - the director is king or queen and they drive everything along - it isn't always possible to contemplate the marketplace alongside the art." It's not as if European cinema...