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...compete with tragedy. A President acting in his capacity as Minister-in-Chief during traumas like the anniversary of the Oklahoma bombing, the fatal crash of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's plane, the Olympic bombing and the TWA explosion, leaves no air time for the opposition. And just when it looked like Dole would get a bump out of the convention, he got hit by Edouard, Fran and Hortense and the President viewing the damage from Chopper...
Fastidiously faithful to Vonnegut's narrative, the film is less true to the cheeky ironies of his tone. This is a loss, but not a fatal one. Well played and handsomely realized, Mother Night is a true movie rarity--an attempt to grapple seriously yet entertainingly with some of the complexities of modern morality...
...Presidente de Tourvel, whom he claims to have fallen in love with, and La Marquise de Mertueil, who holds considerable power over him. The sense of unspoken attachment between Leach and Brawley is perhaps too good, because this turn of events does not seem believable. There is a fatal swordfight between Valmont and Le Chevalier Danceny that continues for too long, stretching out the play's final scenes when they should be compressed to make the downfall of Valmont and Mertueil seem more instantaneous and overwhelming...
...trouble in Qatar and the other oil sheikdoms, of course, goes far deeper. Quite apart from perennial fears about Iraq and Iran, the region faces a potentially fatal combination of declining economic growth, rising democratic opposition and mounting Islamic extremism. The gulf is the West's economic lifeline, and a serious threat to the flow of oil would jeopardize millions of jobs in industrialized countries. While Hamad's cautious reforms, like his cool handling of his family feud, have proved generally popular at home, they are eyed with nervousness and suspicion in the tradition-bound region, which includes Saudi Arabia...
...Researchers reported the first direct link between MAD-COW DISEASE and a fatal brain ailment in people. Sick animals and human victims had the same biochemical patterns in their brains, further supporting the contention that eating tainted meat causes the human illness...