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...Guerín, the focus of his films “is the space...[the] look of the filmmaker, the look of the spectator...In modern cinema, the space of the spectator is bigger.” In “Sylvia,” he concentrates on the conflict between a man and his surroundings. In every film, there is a tension between the fiction and the documentary. It is “abstract...but its intention is reality,” he said. Movie-goers accustomed to detangling “complicated plots” and looking...
...legal 35-hour work-week limit hasn't done much to stiffen French work habits. And though his showdown in November with militant unions and striking transport workers over generous special pensions was hailed as an unprecedented success, Sarkozy still hasn't produced a final agreement to end that conflict, which could flame anew when talks on tightening general retirement schemes open this spring...
...many others, she was put on a train to Germany, on her own at age 13, and told to study because the nascent republic needed educated women. Needless to say, they did not wear head scarves. Indeed, the fervor with which they spurned them explains a lot about the conflict now, as the government seeks to lift a ban on wearing them at universities...
Call it tennis diplomacy. A lithe, 20-year-old Israeli with sun-streaked hair and a laser-accurate forehand is smashing down one barrier in the Arab-Israeli conflict: the unofficial boycott that has kept Israeli tennis players out of the mega-money tournaments held in the gulf states...
...conscience will not allow me to continue with business as usual.' Steven Spielberg, film director, announcing he would withdraw as artistic adviser to this summer's Beijing Olympics over China's stance on the conflict in Darfur, Sudan...