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...these amusing, farcical situations and characters. Little did we know that with time and spreading popularity it would become a social phenomenon." Like its predecessors, Bronzés 3dispatches its callous characters on vacation where a minimalist plot is driven by their pettiness, scheming and serial infidelities. But in contrast to the early works, which parodied the unabashed boorishness of young French tourists in the sex-addled 1970s at an Ivory Coast Club Med resort and, in the second film, on the ski slopes, the new movie finds our antiheroes visiting Sardinia in overripe middle age. Experience has taught them...
...contrast to his then dead-end proposal to reform Social Security, so are lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Last spring Alexander, along with Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, wrote to the prestigious National Academies, an umbrella group that includes the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and asked for a formal assessment of the U.S.'s eroding superiority in science and technology...
...consuming India vs. China debate at Davos. The most impressive Chinese present were government servants, technocrats who could talk the language of international trade and finance as if they had degrees from the best graduate schools in the U.S. (which of course many have). The best Indians, by contrast - and this was before the news broke of Lakshmi Mittal's audacious bid for Europe's steel giant Arcelor - were business leaders from the private sector, already building brands (as very few Chinese firms yet have done) with a global reputation. This speaks to a significant difference in the Chinese...
...second alternative, referral to the Security Council, has gained strong approval as the chapters of this story unfold. Involving the supreme UN organ as well as the IAEA, would strengthen multilateral dialogue, in clear contrast with the monologue of preemptive ideology. Nevertheless, due to economic ties and resulting foreign policies, countries like China or Russia are unlikely to applaud such speeches, and their reluctance will only work for Teheran...
...same and not with a few people driving big cars and living in huge houses. This is what we voted for." Hamas also benefited from a slick and professional campaign. In the Gaza Strip, Hamas officials went from house to house explaining the party's policies. By contrast, "Fatah leaders were busy holding rallies with luxury cars," says Zakarya Ba'aloush, a disgruntled former Fatah security official...