Word: jeaned
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...political objectives the allies set. Even the minimum objective -- securing the area around the airport so that relief flights can land safely -- might require taking out Serbian gun positions and tanks in the surrounding hills. Guesses of the force needed range from 45,000 to 100,000. French Colonel Jean-Louis Dufour, author of a book on the gulf war, thinks that it would take 75,000 troops grouped in three contingents, each including two tank regiments and two artillery regiments...
Inspired by the seductive majesty of a coiffeuse's half-exposed breast, 12- year-old Antoine discovers his vocation: he will become THE HAIRDRESSER'S HUSBAND. Decades later, in another barber chair, Antoine (Jean Rochefort) meets Mathilde (Anna Galiena), "the woman with whom I knew I'd spend my life." Mathilde knows it too; in his Basset eyes she sees erotic ingenuity and unconditional love. Both are avid for the moment the shop door closes "so we can drown in the ocean of peace we love so much." French director Patrice Leconte, whose fine Monsieur Hire also dealt with romantic...
President Bush may have unwittingly coined himself a new campaign slogan: "Read my lips. No new Haitians." That was the message he sent last week as he changed policy on the boat people who have been fleeing the island nation in droves since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown last September. From now on, the Coast Guard will force Haitian refugees it finds on the high seas to return home; if they want political asylum in the U.S., they can go apply at the embassy. This came less than a week after Bush declared that the boat people...
...Danish director Lars von Trier's ambition is that vast: Continent-wide. Set on a German train rumbling through the rubble of World War II -- but suggesting the recent chaos of post-communist Europe -- Zentropa plays like a hallucinogenic remake of The Third Man. A naive American, Leo (Jean-Marc Barr), walks into a web of political duplicity spun by a desperate provocateuse (Barbara Sukowa), a cynical Allied officer (Eddie Constantine) and lots of supporting sharks and werewolves. And where is Harry Lime, the charming, murderous third man? Everywhere. Everyone has something to prove or hide -- everyone but Leo. Which...
McKay, the author of a widely respectedanalysis of 20th century author Jean Toomer, saysthat after weighing the various issues forherself, she found that Harvard had not displayedthe same commitment to her field of interest ashad her own university...