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...case, they believe that for almost half of their lives, Clinton has caused the sun to rise and the chickens to lay and the Velcro to stick and the markets to prosper. If you demur by even a twitch (the matter of impeachment, or a pharmaceuticals factory missiled in Khartoum to distract the media from the spectacle of the President receiving oral sex from a very young intern in the Oval Office), they wrinkle their noses and look away, perplexed by the difficulty of knowing what the meaning...
What gives Topsy-Turvy its heartfelt heft is the way in which it shows how this process takes over everyone's life--eventually driving out all distractions, whether they be Gordon's defeat at Khartoum, the sterilities of Gilbert's marriage or the many anxious neuroses of the acting company. It is show biz as therapy, with all tensions temporarily resolved when the show is a hit. But there is also a sense of real, very Mike Leighish, life in this film that darkens and transforms it. And transfixes...
Rubin also fielded questions about America's mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Kosovo and a supposed chemical weapons factory in Khartoum...
Saudi multimillionaire Salah Idris is preparing to sue the U.S. government in an effort to win back his good name--plus the $30 million or so he lost when the U.S. bombed his pharmaceutical factory last year. According to U.S. officials, Idris' plant in Khartoum stored chemical-weapons material and had links to OSAMA BIN LADEN, the alleged mastermind of attacks on two American embassies in Africa one year ago. But while America has provided little evidence to implicate Idris, the Saudi businessman has commissioned a U.S. investigative firm to support his claim that his plant produced nothing but medicine...
Saudi multimillionaire Salah Idris is preparing to sue the U.S. government in an effort to win back his good name -- plus the $30 million or so he lost when the U.S. bombed his Sudan pharmaceutical factory last year. According to U.S. officials, Idris' plant in Khartoum stored chemical-weapons material and had links to Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of attacks on two American embassies in Africa one year...