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...will doubtless make nice with Fidel Castro) as a price worth paying for something rather remarkable. It has been 20 years since, in her unwitting gift to Latin America, Margaret Thatcher defeated the Argentine junta in the Falklands war and revealed the bankruptcy of politics run by men in dark glasses and military uniforms. Democracy in Latin America is robust; Hakim calls last week's election "tremendously clean, competent and decent." One mark of health in any democracy is the election of those who once opposed a regime. That is why the election to the Mexican presidency of Vicente...
...movie will be cut because the film is being pitched at American families with small children, complete with McDonald's Happy Meal tie-ins. "It's a matter of playability to U.S. audiences," says Rick Sands, Miramax chairman of worldwide distribution. "We don't believe the film is dark but we're marketing it as a family movie whereas in Italy it's being marketed as a Roberto Benigni film ... Roberto wants what's best for the people in each territory." There's some darkness to Pinocchio, he admits finally, "and the question is how to edit those scenes without...
...tens, even hundreds, of million phones. The competition will be fierce. In addition to proprietary systems from Microsoft and Palm, there's a new browser packaged in Palo Alto, California-based Danger's $200 phone, which includes a camera and e-mail and instant messaging functions. A potential dark horse in the mobile race is Oslo-based Trolltech. Trolltech's technology is based on Linux, a system used mainly on Web servers. Because Linux technology is in the public domain, it can be easily customized for any device. Sharp is using Trolltech's mobile version of Linux in its Zaurus...
...years - ever since Walt Disney brightened up the grimmer corners of Carlo Collodi's 1883 classic The Adventures of Pinocchio - there have been two competing versions of the little wooden guy's story: one headquartered in Italy, where people rightly regard the original as a work of dark genius; and one in the U.S., where generations raised on Disney's moody animated gem don't even know a more somber version exists. So when Italy's biggest star, Roberto Benigni, chose Pinocchio as the follow-up to his triple-Oscar global hit Life is Beautiful (1997), fans of the pinewood...
...movie will be cut because the film is being pitched at American families with small children, complete with McDonald's Happy Meal tie-ins. "It's a matter of playability to U.S. audiences," says Rick Sands, Miramax chairman of worldwide distribution. "We don't believe the film is dark but we're marketing it as a family movie whereas in Italy it's being marketed as a Roberto Benigni film ... Roberto wants what's best for the people in each territory." There's some darkness to Pinocchio, he admits finally, "and the question is how to edit those scenes without...