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...prosecutors had taken those allegations and released them to the public,? DeFede says. ?Art was devastated by this. Art was talking to me about the impact this was having on his adult son whose mother had just passed away, how the ministers in the black churches would not defend him if he was homosexual...
...made it easy on himself. When Gilliam meets the moguls to pitch a new project, he wears the albatross of his lost films on one shoulder--and a grudge on the other. "I think I've got a certain talent," he says, "and I don't know how to defend it. So I end up defending it more vociferously than it may need, but I always feel under threat. It's a basic in-built paranoia. When people start interfering, I go a little bit crazy...
...promise I will become a spokesperson, if you allow me to ... on your behalf. I will defend you and try to get rid of any stereotypes." RICKY MARTIN, pop star, offering to help change negative perceptions of Arab youth in the West
...While negotiations continued over the weekend, little headway appeared to be made on substantive issues. There was general agreement that the Korean peninsula should be "denuclearized," but no accord on what that meant. North Korea, which has stated it needs nuclear weapons to defend itself against a "hostile" U.S., is arguing that a deal must include removal of any U.S. nuclear threat in the region?a nonstarter with Washington. The North also wants to keep its nascent civilian nuclear program, but the U.S. fears that would mean Pyongyang could still sell the building blocks of nuclear weapons technology to terrorists...
...Environmental groups defend Kyoto and see nothing but backpedaling in the new arrangement?if not something worse, like a protection of coal industries in Australia, the U.S., China and India. Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, says he sees a single advantage to the new approach: that the Bush Administration is finally acknowledging that global warming is real and that fossil fuels play a role. "But this dual pact approach is not helpful," he says. "The entire world community needs to come together on this issue. The pattern...