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...this dispiriting little film about sexual gymnasts worth all the fuss? In the Philippines, yes. For most Filipinos, it's impossible to have a conversation without quoting a line from a Hollywood hit or a show tune, as if cinema were the grand sum of all the world's philosophy. Movies and politics are also melded together. Even with Estrada gone, movie stars still want to be politicians, and politicians yearn for their close up. The President copied her look and her camera poses from a doll-sized Filipina actress, Nora Aunor, whom she resembles...
...publish the ad seized all 4,000 copies of the paper. At the University of California, Berkeley, a forum on reparations degenerated into a shouting match after Horowitz delivered a characteristically pugnacious speech. But once they have finished railing at Horowitz, reparations supporters ought to applaud him. The fuss he started is just the kind of highly visible wrangling they need to prove that reparations is an issue worth fighting about, not a pipe dream. If an archconservative like Horowitz is so down on the idea, it must have merit...
...Bundesrat has long been a reassuringly sleepy chamber. Composed of representatives of the 16 German states, the upper house of parliament normally can be counted on to approve new legislation without raising a fuss. All that changed in 1999, however, when the opposition Christian Democrats won a string of state elections, giving them a "blocking minority" in the Bundesrat. Suddenly Chancellor Gerhard Schröder discovered that in order to get laws like his tax reform package through the upper house, he had to wheel and deal or risk certain defeat...
...Vanity Fair is the toughest party to get invited to. The List is managed by the Status Police, who seem to employ a system that is all Vanity and very little Fair. Those who do make it inside are sometimes left wondering what the fuss was all about. But what was once a figment (of then-editor) Tina Brown's imagination has now become the ultimate litmus test of one's Hollywood clout...
...what the fuss is all about," he says. "I think they're going to find something to criticize Bill Clinton about anyhow and this is what...