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...been forced to turn back. As it was, at one point Lieut. General Omar Bradley, hearing of the carnage of Omaha Beach, said he feared that "our forces had suffered an irreversible catastrophe" and considered sounding the retreat and waving off the reinforcements. The decision to press on through iron rain gave his forces...
...John Kerry?" asks George Butler. "It's a big question." The documentary filmmaker who propelled Arnold Schwarzenegger to fame with the 1977 movie Pumping Iron, Butler is hoping he will have crafted the definitive answer onto 90 minutes of celluloid in time to hit theaters by late summer. The film will be loosely based on Tour of Duty, Douglas Brinkley's admiring biography of Kerry's years as a boat captain in Vietnam and then as an antiwar protester. But Butler brings more to the $1.3 million project than his cinematic skills. A close friend of the Senator...
Though Butler says the Kerry campaign has no editorial control over the film, it is cooperating. "The secret to [Kerry's] future is in his past," says Butler, promising "a fair amount of objectivity." He notes that he and Schwarzenegger were close friends when he made Pumping Iron. "Don't compare me to Boswell," he adds, "but the fact is, the greatest biography ever written"--The Life of Samuel Johnson--"was written by Johnson's best friend...
...Obviously, that's bad news if you happen to be in the business of selling, say, iron to China. But a slowdown would be welcome in many quarters. China's appetite for raw materials has been Brobdingnagian. The country consumed 40% of the world's cement, 31% of the world's coal and 27% of its steel last year, helping drive up prices for many commodities, such as metals, by 50%. But prices have been falling for several weeks, to the delight of many. Jeffrey Sheu, spokesman for Taiwan-based bicycle maker Giant Manufacturing, applauds China's efforts to rein...
...East. In Brussels on Sunday, ambassadors planned to hold a friendly football match, each wearing T shirts with the same magic number: 25. Appreciation of the day's significance was most intense further east, particularly in the seven new members that languished for more than 40 years behind the Iron Curtain. It was there, east of the Oder River, where Europe's division was most acutely felt in the systematic repression of human rights and national destiny. In bringing the sundered halves of the Continent together, E.U. bureaucrats have grumbled about the intransigence of the new members in the past...