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...itself if it accepts a responsibility in the world corresponding to its singular intellectual tradition, its extraordinary resources and its great economic power." Still, while forcefully argued, these were not the kind of electrifying words he delivered last year in Regensberg, and Vatican officials privately say they'd prefer a voyage that didn't necessarily produce so many headlines...
...Wilson has appeared in all five of Anderson's feature films (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and the new one) and co-wrote the first three - the ones I prefer in the the director's oeuvre. The script here is by Anderson, Schwartzman and Roman Coppola (Francis' son, Sofia's brother) and it doesn't add luster to anyone's reputation...
...President George W. Bush on Iraq, because, well, that's what Democrats do. But--and this is where things get tricky--they don't exactly want him to support Bush's Iraq policy either. Recent polls suggest that while most Republicans oppose a complete withdrawal from Iraq, they'd prefer a smaller U.S. presence, ensconced in bases far from Iraq's bloody cities, training Iraqis to do the fighting. In short, they want what the Baker-Hamilton commission proposed last fall--exactly the position Bush rejected when he ordered the surge...
...year's delay. "Airbus was thinking that people wanted massive airplanes to go between the continents," says Neidl. "What's wrong with that is that they don't." The A380 might work for flights to hubs such as London's Heathrow but probably not for intermediate cities, where passengers prefer direct service. And while seat-mile costs can be reduced for an airline with such an aircraft, too many seats to fill can erode yields...
...boils down to encountering a social problem or taboo, facing up to it and getting past it by laughing. Likewise the singalong shows: their cathartic message is that none of us are above it all. No, you don't have to sing it well, America. In fact, we'd prefer if you didn...