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...friends, my most beloved friends, are against this policy. I think they will vote against it in the Knesset. They also criticize the agreement, even in very sharp language. They criticize me, of course. It is their perfect right to do so. The Frenchmen have a philosophical expression, c 'est la vie, such is life...
...more attractive than her husband, who is funnier and probably better company over the long haul, is that belief in something beyond oneself tends to make a fellow more exciting sexually. A dubious point, but sufficient for a movie which, like others written by Semprun (notably La Guerre Est Finie), insists that there is a link between the romantic and the revolutionary spirits. Since that is the only worthwhile humanistic argument for maintaining a rebellious posture, and certainly the only likable one, his pictures tend to have a worldly and rueful air that is appealing...
Villot, following a centuries-old ritual, immediately called out the Pope's baptismal name (Giovanni) three times, then pronounced the formula vere Papa mortuus est (truly the Pope is dead). He dispensed with the former tradition of tapping the dead Pontiff's head three times with a small silver mallet. Minutes later a heavy chain was drawn across the great iron door of Castel Gandolfo, and church bells in Rome began their slow, measured death toll, signaling the news to the world...
...many of them, it is the second time they have put to sea in the leaky boats, which bear such prayerful names as Bon Dieu Bon (God Is Good) and Dieu Est Mon Pilote (God Is My Pilot). Since the late 1960s, Haitians have been emigrating illegally to the nearby Bahamas, where an estimated 40,000 now live, working as gardeners, servants and day laborers. But Bahamian officials, faced with an unemployment rate of nearly 25%, in June ordered the Haitians to leave. Explained Bahamian Information Services Spokesman Chris Symmonett: "They have been taking jobs Bahamians could perform and putting...
Southern African Solidarity Group: "La Guerre est Finie...