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...acceptance speech, Moore exhibited his usual showmanship. He joked about the Walt Disney Co.?s decision to forbid its subsidiary, Miramax Films, from releasing the film in the U.S.: ?I?m happy to announce we have a distributor in Albania. So you can now see this film in every country but one.? He quoted ?a great Republican President? - Abraham Lincoln - on how important it is to ?give the people the truth.? As for the current Republican President, Moore said at a subsequent press conference, ?I would love to have a White House screening of this film? and quipped that...
...Anybody but Bush,” the Left only enables Kerry to pursue a platform as similar to Bush’s as possible. At the least, progressives need to push Kerry towards providing a true alternative to Bush whether by lobbying, public demonstration, or, god forbid, threatening to vote for Nader. We must build a vibrant, independent Left that remains disinterested from Kerry’s Bush-like flailings—not just because this is the only way to sway the Democrats, but so we can move beyond the two-party system...
...exactly every day that the Pentagon warns military personnel to stay away from Fox News. But that's exactly what some hopeful soul at the Department of Defense instructed, in a memo intended to forbid Pentagon staff reading a copy of the Taguba report detailing abuse of detainees at prisons in Iraq that had been posted at the Fox News web site...
...mind being imprisoned for a crime she committed, later following her across France to Bordeaux’s Hotel Splendide. A crop of rabid aristocrats have also gathered at the Splendide to escape the madhouse of Paris and badger the wait-staff nonstop for rooms—God forbid they sleep in their cars, with their suitcases and hatboxes! Serendipity and coincidences abound in Bon Voyage—but then everyone’s running around so frantically that it would be impossible for them not to bump into each other at the most opportune, or most inopportune, moments...
...kilo to around $1.34. So Santúrová is stocking up; she is buying 50 kg. "I am afraid," says Santúrová, 65, who lives on a $170-a-month pension. "I need at least 60 kg of sugar to make wine every year ... God forbid I let myself be caught off guard." She also plans to buy at least 10 kg of rice, and already has 10 L of sunflower oil. You might think a war or hurricane was about to hit the region. But the buying panic was triggered by the approach...