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...time for Condoleezza Rice to go? Since assuming her post of Secretary of State, she has had very few successes. It would appear diplomacy is not her strong suit. The fault might lie in the arrogant and uncompromising attitude of her bosses, but her performance has been dismal and disappointing. Much of her time and energy has been diverted to defending the strategies and policies of the Bush Administration. One wonders whether a more independent-thinking Secretary of State would better serve the country. Gerald Schwartz Amberley Village, Ohio...
...Olivier Dahan's new film La Môme (The Kid), titled La Vie en Rose in some countries, was virtually assured success. In the first week following its Feb. 14 release, the film attracted over 1.5 million viewers - 400,000 more than the 2001 smash hit Amélie pulled in its first week. The towering billboards are an appropriate symbol of Piaf's cultural legacy. She may have measured a mere 1.47 m, but the full-scale Piaf revival Dahan's film has inspired shows that, decades after her death in 1963, her shadow still looms large over...
...blind, though she did have an inflamed cornea that was cured by ordinary medical treatment. She was also cleared of any involvement in Leplée's death. "Piaf didn't invent these myths," says Brierre, "but she knew it wouldn't harm her image to let certain rumors lie. With the facts skewed, her life was like a character in a novel - a romantic novel full of mythical relationships. I think this makes her a typically French icon...
...veterans agree, however, that the best sources of cash lie outside the Psychology Department...
...view inside the negotiating room, through months of wrangling over the law, was starkly different. At least one person who sat through the talks said he was amazed to find that U.S. officials and diplomats appeared to lie low, perhaps because they were overwhelmed by fighting the war. "The U.S. was so afraid to be seen to be meddling in Iraq's oil that they took a backseat," says Jonathan Morrow, legal adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government and a former senior legal adviser to the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington. Rather than simply satisfying oil companies...