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...Meanwhile, G.O.P. Representative Ray LaHood of Illinois says he will try to attach an amendment to a funding bill that would retroactively prohibit Bell or any other departing House member from filing an ethics complaint. Says LaHood: "I don't think we should be allowing members to throw a Molotov cocktail as they walk out the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Parting Shot At Delay | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

Roosevelt accordingly assured Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov in the spring of 1942 that he could "expect the formation of a second front this year." Stalin was momentarily mollified. But he was soon disappointed and then venomously embittered when it became clear that the U.S. would not open a second front in 1942 or even in 1943. As compensation, Roosevelt offered Stalin some Lend-Lease aid, vague assurances of a free hand in postwar Eastern Europe, and a pledge to accept nothing less than Germany's (and Japan's) unconditional surrender. The Russians fought on, but at horrendous cost. Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Patient Warrior | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

Moore should be used to prizes by now. His 2002 Bowling for Columbine earned $58 million worldwide and an Oscar nod that Moore turned into a decisive media event when, in his acceptance speech, he scolded the President for invading Iraq. So Cannes was primed for his latest movie Molotov cocktail. Its first screening, on a Monday at 8 a.m., got total team news coverage; a dozen or so radio and TV crews circled the U.S. critics to get their early reaction as Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, whose Disney bosses had forbidden him to release the film, paced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Art of Burning Bush | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...fellow from Flint, Michigan, who's usually seen in a scruffy beard and duck-hunter couture, was prowling the Riviera in a tuxedo jacket and baggy black trousers, and this time the game he was aiming at was George W. Bush. Cannes was primed for Moore's latest movie Molotov cocktail, Fahrenheit 9/11, long before it won the coveted Palme D'Or award on Saturday evening. The film's first screening, on a Monday at 8 a.m., got blanket news coverage; a dozen or so radio and TV crews circled the U.S. critics to get their early reaction. Meanwhile, Miramax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fine Art of Burning Bush | 5/23/2004 | See Source »

...definitely takes on a different role than the Quincy grille or the Adams Molotov,” he said. “Students don’t spend time chilling in the grocery store down in Cabot basement...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cabot Convenience Store Closes After Deficits | 5/14/2004 | See Source »

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