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...ceremony. In a crowded courtyard, the greatest fighters of their time, the Furious Five - the Crane (David Cross), Viper (Lucy Liu), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Tigress (Angelina Jolie) and Monkey (Jackie Chan) - are showily displaying the fabulous skills they have honed under the stern eye of their teacher Shifu (Dustin Hoffman). Then, through plot contortions even more acrobatic than anything the Furious Five have demonstrated, Po is declared the new kung fu hero. Shifu is aghast: this clown can't be taught anything. Yet Oggway believes that the accident that dropped Po out of the sky was no accident...
...present for a right wing coup. A police demonstration is far from an insurrection, and even if the cabinet falls, the parliamentary merry-go-round should keep on turning there are disaffected and frustrated army groups in France in addition to the extreme right wing parties, but according got Hoffman, de Gaulle seems sick of politics and gives his supporters little reason to believe that he will lead them to power...
...bottom of many of the difficulties facing France lies the Algerian rebellion, which drains France of a million dollars daily, with little apparent result. But since the Second Empire; and her arte of economic growth has now surpassed even West Germany’s. Hoffman notes, “There is no point in telling people that disaster is around the corner as Mendes-Frances does, if when you round the corner you see a new automobile...
...allied with the prosperity is the surprising fact according to Hoffman, that the Algerian War is a popular war. The people seem willing to finance it, and only a minority of intellectual come out for Algerian independence. It seems doubtful that the present situation will change radically in the near future...
...Doubtful also is the prospect for quick, major changes in France’s government. The present parliamentary system has many fireworks but few explosions. Prosperity is increasing; the people, according to Hoffman, seem highly concerned over the length of paid holidays. For the Frenchman things are better than every, and the long-range fate of the nation in such circumstances is often a remote worry. As they say, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose.” The more things change in France the more they seem to stay...