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...been much loved by the party faithful; if a war were to go badly, his position would become untenable. As to Europe, though Blair (and Bush) have allies there, among them the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, the British leader has been blindsided by the revival of the Franco-German alliance, manifested last week by the joint declaration of French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder of their opposition to military action. If Britain is yoked to the U.S. in an unpopular, messy war, it is France and Germany - not Britain - that will shape the future...
...subject of a hundred or so films, from Edison's The Passion Play at Oberammergau in 1898 to a quartet of Stan Brakhage experimental shorts in 2001. The story has been filmed by Cecil B. DeMille, Nicholas Ray, George Stevens. The Messiah has been portrayed with stolid reverence (in Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth) and Surrealist blasphemy (Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or). Often he sings: in Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar, in a born-again Bollywood musical and in the Canadian kung-fu horror comedy Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter...
...head of the Interagency Council on Homelessness. He is liked by members of both parties and fits Bush's theme of faith-based compassion. A former rock manager who represented members of Buffalo Springfield and Peter, Paul and Mary, Mangano says his life changed in 1972 when he saw Franco Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon, a movie about the life of St. Francis. For Mangano, who calls himself a homeless abolitionist, ending chronic homeless is a moral call. "Is there any manifestation of homelessness more tragic or more visible than chronic homelessness experienced by those who are suffering from...
...cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri. His sermons attract fundamentalist Muslims to the Finsbury Park mosque, including many Algerians who live in this north London neighborhood. Prominent terror suspects have found inspiration there, including alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid, Zacarias Moussaoui, now in a U.S. prison, and Djamel Beghal, a Franco-Algerian who is now in French custody and believed to have taken orders from Abu Zubaydah, a top associate of Osama bin Laden. Some members of the alleged ricin gang are also rumored to have attended the Finsbury Park mosque. Britain may now be taking a harder line with...
...They proposed an unwieldy double presidency as a way to make the E.U. more democratically legitimate, transparent and efficient. This is not the first time that the holder of the six-month rotating presidency of the European Council, currently Greece, looked on from the peanut gallery as the reinvigorated Franco-German alliance made the decisions that matter. But despite its weighty parentage, the proposal won't be the last word on how best to govern Europe. For while France and Germany may have neatly solved their central dispute over the shape of the E.U.'s institutions, the initiative only begins...