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Sahara, directed by Breck Eisner and starring Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, and Penélope Cruz, is based on one of a series of adventure novels written by Clive Cussler. The movie, like the books, follows the daring escapades of intrepid explorer Dirk Pitt (McConaughey), hunky marine adventurer...
...right-wing extremist Vlaams Belang party or the radical Arab European League. The idea that an AEL candidate might be a main rival to Vlaams Belang in the 2012 municipal elections is plainly outrageous, since AEL's percentage of the vote in the last election was negligible. Dirk Lambrecht Brussels Your stories on discrimination against immigrants in Europe summed up my experience as a French-born Muslim as well as that of some of my friends. I have several university degrees and speak five languages, but I couldn't get even an internship in France in my field, finance. Many...
...opposition Christian Democratic Union (cdu), said her party would support the reduction as long as it involved no new borrowing. Business leaders were pleased, with the stock market reacting modestly; the DAX index was up 0.42% at week's end. "It's a step in the right direction," says Dirk Schumacher, an economist at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt. "Corporate taxes had to come down, given that countries around us are much lower." But he added that there's no guarantee that companies will use their tax windfall to invest in Germany. Even if Schröder's measures get through...
...doing and the buying and selling of carbon dioxide?emissions allowances. Not a word about the much larger emissions problem caused by other parts of the world, especially the U.S., which among other nations declined to participate in the efforts of the Kyoto accord to save the planet. Dirk Roggeveen Voorburg, the Netherlands The Kyoto accord is not about saving the earth. It is about saving humankind for a while longer before accelerated climate change wipes out the not-very-wise Homo sapiens. If we were really smart, we would take into account our track record of raping the earth...
Ongoing through Saturday, Feb. 26. The American Repertory Theater presents Foreign Aids, written and performed by Pieter-Dirk Uys. Zero Arrow Theatre. Tickets vary. Tickets at A.R.T. Box Office or by calling...