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...movies (A Cock and Bull Story: Tristram Shandy) and guesting in bigger ones. He had a brief, explosive turn as the director in Tropic Thunder, and he's popped up in Finding Amanda, Hot Fuzz, Marie Antoinette, Night at the Museum and dozens more. Either he's much in demand or his agent has been instructed never to turn down an offer. At any rate, he's the kind of highly employable performer Dana dreams of being...
...Autonomy is a demand familiar to the Tibetan activists nearby, who have arrived from all over India to join a 24-hour hunger strike. As the protesters use loudspeakers to relay pro-Tibet speeches, a couple of cops stroll by, ogling the rosy-cheeked Tibetan girls. Police and protesters share mutual disdain. "They hate us," laughs Rachna Dhingra, an activist with the International Campaign for Justice for Bhopal, which has been camping here since March to demand legal action against the corporation responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, which killed more than 3,000 people. "We're making...
When BMW was looking for a place to roll out its new top-of-the-range 7 Series model, one country immediately came to mind: Russia. Demand for luxury autos has been soaring there - BMW's Russian sales have quadrupled in the past five years and were up 54% last year alone. So the German automaker threw a splashy party in Moscow on July 8, unveiling its revamped model inside a 40-ft.-high (12 m) acrylic-and-steel hourglass that it erected on Red Square itself. The show "reflects the confidence that the BMW Group has in this country...
...political debate. With the U.S. facing an energy emergency, McCain jokes about tire inflation. When your 85-year-old mother loses her General Motors health benefits because GM can't sell cars, you want health-care solutions, not McCain's juvenile critique of Obama's European trip. Voters must demand solutions from those running for office - not fifth-grade political campaigns with playground sound bites. As a retired U.S. Air Force veteran, I find it disturbing that McCain has lost touch with reality. Major Robert Tormey (ret.), Escondido, California...
...political debate. With the U.S. facing an energy emergency, McCain jokes about tire inflation. When your 85-year-old mother loses her General Motors health benefits because GM can't sell cars, you want health-care solutions, not McCain's juvenile critique of Obama's European trip. Voters must demand solutions from those running for office--not fifth-grade political campaigns with playground sound bites. As a retired U.S. Air Force veteran, I find it disturbing that McCain has lost touch with reality. Major Robert Tormey (ret.) escondido, CALIF...