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Strip away the underlying cash balance, departmental forward estimates, Treasury's economic forecasts and the rhetorical flourishes in Peter Costello's Parliamentary speech on May 11, and what can you make of Australia's 2004-05 federal Budget? Is it anything but a routine annual statement on taxing and spending? While fiscal policy is nowadays a second-tier economic tool, it's always been a top-shelf political accelerant. It's also the best example around of how governments set the agenda - particularly when general elections loom. If Prime Minister John Howard and Treasurer Costello have become masters at anything...
...Fair enough," says Pitt, whose impeccable toning is being marketed heavily in advance of Troy's May 14 opening. "But I'll tell you why I did it. It's the scene when Priam"--played by Peter O'Toole--"asks Achilles for the body of his son. Achilles says, 'If I do this for you, you're still my enemy in the morning.' And Priam says, 'You're still my enemy tonight. But even enemies can show respect.' It's probably one of the best scenes I'll ever get handed, with one of the best actors of our time...
...Agamemnon (Brian Cox), a greedy Greek with an addiction to regime change, and Priam of Troy (Peter O'Toole), whom melancholy has made too wise. Priam's younger son Paris (Orlando Bloom) has run off with Helen (Diane Kruger), legendarily gorgeous young wife of Agamemnon's brother Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson). Agamemnon and Odysseus of Ithaca (Sean Bean) lead a siege of Troy, and the kingdoms' best warriors--Achilles and Hector (Eric Bana)--are fated to fight...
...killed every day. The U.S. did not send enough troops to Iraq to begin with, nor was there adequate planning for the period after the war. Bush thought we would be finished in a few months, that we would just plug in democracy and say, So long. What stupidity. PETER SEYMOUR Raytown...
...head of the Coalition Provisional Authority with an experienced mayor of a large city. Add to the military a police force that knows how to deal with an unruly urban civilian population. The one thing the U.S. should not do is "stay the course," as advocated by President Bush. PETER R. LANTOS Erdenheim...