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...wants: legitimacy as an armed state-within-a-state. The opposition will now have enough ministers in the Lebanese cabinet to veto any major decisions, effectively ending any attempt to move against Hizballah's weapons. It also calls for parliament to elect a consensus candidate, army chief Gen. Michel Suleiman, to the country's presidency, which has been vacant for months. The government had been hoping to elect one of its own, since it controls a majority in parliament...
...France, the E.U.'s biggest recipient of farm aid, launched a preemptive strike, warning that the global food crisis made the CAP more relevant than ever. "The solution to the crisis is not, first of all, through free trade," French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier told fellow E.U. farm ministers on Monday. Paris also co-opted Germany, the E.U.'s biggest budget contributor, in its bid to maintain the annual flow of around $63 billion (€40 billion) in hand-outs to Europe's farmers...
...mainstay in the Cannes competition for a quarter century, providing such sere delights as The Cannibals (with its comic shock of a conclusion), Voyage to the Beginning of the World (Marcello Mastroianni's last great film) and I'm Going Home, with a wonderful role for French film luminary Michel Piccoli. Piccoli was onstage to present an honorary Palme d'Or to the director who had never won one in competition. "Finally," Oliveira impishly exclaimed as he kissed the award...
...still has loyal admirers in Europe, though, as was proved by the urgent mob waiting to see Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and by the warm applause when it ended. After the screening we ran into one of his champions: Michel Ciment, the doyen of French critics. "You still go to Woody Allen films?" asked Michel in mock or mocking surprise. He was just setting us up for a pronouncement: that whatever Allen's current reputation, years from now people will take a retrospective look at the 40 - some films he's made and proclaim him as part of a holy trinity...
...misfortune, he puts my name in another thing, he's going to get a blow of my cane in the mug!", Ceccaldi warns in The Innocent. "Michel and I can begin speaking again the day he goes public, with The Elementary Particles in his hand, and says 'I am a liar, an impostor; I have been a parasite; I never did anything in my life except hurt all those around me. And I apologize...