Word: michels
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...making of these underground movies gives Black a chance to put his usual ham on wry, and for Def to exhibit a gallery of eloquent shrugs. It's also a way for Michel Gondry, the French writer-director who worked with Charlie Kaufman on the Jim Carrey time-slip comedy Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, to bang home his point that all moviemaking, whether a tiny indie film or a Michael Bay extravaganza, are communal enterprises. The whole town not only lines up to rent Mike and Jerry's faux films, they join in their production, serving as extras...
Convicted of the 1994 kidnapping and murder of three backpackers in Cambodia, the former Khmer Rouge commander Sam Bith was sentenced to life in prison in 2002. David Wilson of Australia, Mark Slater of the U.K. and Jean-Michel Braquet of France were on a train when it was ambushed by Khmer Rouge fighters. The rebels had been waging a guerrilla war in the jungle after the violent four-year reign of their leader, Pol Pot, ended in 1979. Several Cambodians were killed in the 1994 attack. The three travelers were held for three months, then executed when ransom negotiations...
...from member countries' donations - approximately the same amount that the New York Police Department spends in an average week. Interpol's staff in Lyons joke bitterly that the organization costs little more than David Beckham's salary at the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer club. "It's peanuts," says Jean-Michel Louboutin, Interpol's executive director of police services...
...tell people, "Go back to the '80s." Ronald Reagan did not have talk radio or an alternative media supporting him. What was he down - in the House of Representatives - the Democrat margin then was what, 130 seats or something? And [the Republicans] were led by a guy named Bob Michel, whose objective every day was to make sure he was invited to play golf with Democratic leaders. And [Reagan] didn't have the Senate for most of his eight [years]. Look what he did. He got his tax cuts through - a number of things. It can be done...
...next challenge will be to take these good ideas and find out which can be implemented,” Michel said...