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...joke these days, so screenwriters Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade pick their Quantum villain from Column A. Greene is a zillionaire tycoon who uses environmental philanthropy to mask his plan to divert water from the peasants of South America. (Bolivia is the new Chinatown.) Amalric, the French actor often seen in harried, sympathetic roles like the paralyzed writer in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is effectively reptilian here, his whispers tinged with menace, his smile hinting at sadism...
...Often I find that I am pleased to have become French.' CARLA BRUNI-SARKOZY, Italian-born wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, reacting to Berlusconi's remark...
...write is to take a running start on untangling the blanks,” Marie Étienne writes in her poetry collection “King of a Hundred Horsemen,” the first of the French author’s books to be published in English. Reading “Horsemen,” however, is a process of untangling all unto itself. It’s almost impossible to answer the question of what’s going on in the hundred poems offered in this collection, translated into English by National Book Award-winning poet...
...French President Nicolas Sarkozy is not the sort to let a grim outlook undermine his trademark determination. So despite the chorus of warnings against expecting conclusive results from this Saturday's G-20 summit in Washington on the world's crisis-stricken financial system, Sarkozy says he'll accept nothing short of tangible progress toward "moralizing finance markets...
...Even if Saturday's meeting will mostly be theatrics and promises to hold future meetings, Sarkozy needs to go and speak to Bush in order to send a message to Obama," says French political analyst Alain Duhamel. "What that will say is Sarkozy and Europe are mobilized and determined to regulate markets collectively, and that Obama is going to have to deal with that push from his foreign allies - especially if the situation remains this dire through Obama's Inauguration...