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...interview with chat-show host Andrew Denton last year, Hogan confessed his disdain for acting. "It's a rather childish pursuit," he said. "'I pretend I'm someone, and I'm, you know ... really good at pretending.' And I don't sort of get on with people who polish their craft and go to the edge of the envelope and take it a bit too seriously." Watching Strange Bedfellows, you wish he'd pretend a bit more - loosen up and have some fun. Because his eyes are beginning to lose their twinkle...
...standpoint, the United States need not worry about an opposition leader from a sparsely-populated nation with a small economy and an even smaller army. Irrelevant to the average American, Australia seems little more than a holiday locale and a former British colony. But Australia’s new disdain for U.S hegemony augurs worryingly for the world superpower...
...thing stands out about all these debates—they’re arguments of privilege. The grunts of revulsion at Bush’s eighth-grade vocabulary, more puerile than funny three years into the term, represent an unthoughtful disdain that ostensibly worldly Harvard grads can hardly afford. It reflects a bourgeois kind of liberalism that doesn’t belong to either the vast swathes of “red” country or to most of liberal America, where the gristle of labor unions or socially conservative minorities dominates. Unless “the real world?...
...more bravado. After all, it was the Socialists' first big win in two humiliating, ineffective years. But Cambadélis and his colleagues know their victory has little to do with any surge in the party's electoral appeal and a lot to do with rising public disdain for the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (ump) of conservative President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. "This isn't a vote for the Socialists," says political commentator Alain Duhamel. "It's an expression of discontent with the liberal policies of the government." This spring is shaping...
...Korea's democracy. His main selling point was not his allergy to the U.S. (genuine as that may be), but rather his outsider's r?sum?: his manifest lack of experience in Seoul's payola-driven politics, a system that the great majority of voters already viewed with distrust and disdain. Once in office, Roh's amateurish and inconstant performance, as well as his own cynical attempts to game the system, did little to allay popular misgivings about the health of the democracy. Recall that, after barely eight months in office, a frustrated and tactically outclassed Roh toyed with pulling...