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...Senator Obama has also devoted his attention to less glamorous issues like helping to ensure additional funding to secure former Soviet nuclear materials and limiting access to conventional arms. He has sponsored bills that raise fuel-economy standards and directly confront the genocide in Darfur...
...poodle" for his support of the U.S. mission in Iraq. But his critics are unduly cynical, missing that it was Blair’s belief that drove his policy, not vice versa—he supported the mission in Iraq not to please President Bush, but to confront the spread of terrorism. He has long advocated a greater role for Britain in international affairs: He sent British troops to Kosovo to stop ethnic genocide, he traveled to Sierra Leone to help end its civil war, and he continues to support NATO’s mission in Afghanistan to stamp...
...Bush Administration has been unwilling take more aggressive action against European commercial concerns that trade openly with Iran, and it won't endorse the Obama-Frank or Sherman bill. State Department officials don't relish a repeat of the "freedom fries" confrontation with France and other European nations who opposed the invasion of Iraq. "We've been working with the Europeans and others to put together and maintain this unity and coalition to confront Iran, and that's achieved what we've gotten in terms of the Security Council," says a senior State Department official, referring to two U.N. Security...
...least, Gore is firmly in the program. He's working mightily to build a popular movement to confront what he calls "the most serious crisis we've ever faced." He has logged countless miles in the past four years, crisscrossing the planet to present his remarkably powerful slide show and the Oscar-winning documentary that's based on it, An Inconvenient Truth, to groups of every size and description. He flies commercial most of the time to use less CO2 and buys offsets to maintain a carbon-neutral life. In tandem with Hurricane Katrina and a rising chorus of warning...
...Each time you confront another culture," says the director Bekmambetov, whose sequel Day Watch will be released in the U.S. next month, "it gives you the motivation to create something different, to rethink your film in a way." In this Internet-chatting, newscrawl-reading multicultural era, when filmmakers can thematically incorporate subtitles into the story, a corner may have been turned. It's happened before; remember only a few years back when everyone believed that letterboxing was blocking part of the screen? Now it's hard to find DVDs that aren't letterboxed. Still, for subtitling, it might be slow...