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...pictures, from Platoon to JFK to Any Given Sunday, are celebrations and autopsies of overweening machismo. Alexander, his first fiction film in five years, promises plenty more of the same. Instead of a stately epic--like Robert Rossen's 1956 Alexander the Great, with Richard Burton as the globe-annexing god-king--Stone presents a riot of sensations, military and erotic, through which Alexander (Colin Farrell) has to hack like an intrepid soldier through an unfamiliar jungle. All of which makes for a long, lumpy trip with a charismatic guide and some brilliant detours...
...song, which brought together everyone from U2 to Wham! (an achievement in itself), went straight to No. 1 in Britain and raised some $18 million. We Are the World, an even schmaltzier American effort, and the accompanying Live Aid rock concert, screened to 1.5 billion people around the globe, raised millions more. Band Aid, the brainchild of scruffy Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof and electropop pioneer Midge Ure, eventually pulled in more than $144 million, most of which bought emergency food for Ethiopia. "I once said that we would be more powerful in memory than in reality," Geldof remarked...
Bennett worked in Peru in 1982 as a stringer for the Post, then joined the Boston Globe, where he covered local news and then reported on violence in Latin America, according to the Post story. In 1995 he became the Globe’s foreign editor before jumping to the Post...
...Yang's globe trotting reflects just how powerful China's thirst for fossil fuels has become. A booming but energy-inefficient economy and an emerging middle class in love with cars and other modern conveniences have caused energy demand in China to soar. The nation's oil imports have doubled over the past three years and surged nearly 40% in the first half of 2004 alone, pushing the country past Japan to become the world's second largest oil consumer, behind...
Started by our neighbors to the north, this satirical site asks foreigners to "open your heart, and your home" to political refugees from the U.S. Some 5,000 people from around the globe have taken the pledge...