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Harvey Weinstein and his quieter brother Bob are among the last old-fashioned film moguls, known in the business for their flash and their foresight. After building their studio, Miramax, from the ground up, they proceeded to make bold, unexpected choices - such as producing Quentin Tarantino's edgy Pulp Fiction in 1994 and bringing Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai to American screens in 1996 - that have inspired packs of copycats...
...TIME: Your image as a role model for African leaders has been tarnished by the perception that your government is not concerned with human rights. Meles: As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have over a number of years learned to be a little less direct. And I have certain misgivings about these human rights organizations and their activities. I see fundamental structural flaws in the way they operate. The way it's done...
...TIME: Why could you not accept the Islamic Courts Union taking charge in Somalia? Meles: Because these groups had declared jihad on us. And the TFG also gave us the legal ground for intervening by inviting us to come in. Now is Somalia stable yet? No, it is not, and it is not going to be absolutely tranquil any time soon. But the level of violence has dramatically gone down...
Perhaps we can forgive Adamson for attempting to stake out his own artistic ground at play's end, and choosing a burial plot for that purpose. But in so doing he abandons the Almodóvarian spirit, which always favors birth over death. In this adaptation's postmodern flux, Almodóvar's unique voice, upbeat even amid the direst human tragedies, ultimately goes missing. Which is a shame. After all, it's his voice, and the way from hurt to healing it describes, that we most want to hear...
...Plan Three, said to be favored by Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, calls for occasional ground strikes into Gaza and an increase in assassinations of Hamas's political and military leadership. "It wouldn't be Ismael Haniyeh [the Hamas leader and ex-Prime Minister], but it would be those right under him," one source told TIME. Until now, Israel has refrained from targeting Hamas's political leadership since they are not involved in the rocket attacks on Israel - the rocketeers usually belong to Islamic Jihad and other smaller Palestinian militant groups. "We want Hamas on the run so that...