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...Asterix stands for - "independence, fraternity, conviviality and resistance". Sylvie, then alleged her 81-year-old father had been convinced by unidentified advisers to reverse his fiercely independent, family control of the series, and sell it to outside business interests. For its part, Hachette Livre has made it clear in press reports that it views its acquisition of the 60% Asterix stake as a legitimate, above-board transaction with Albert Uderzo and Anne Goscinny; it meanwhile refused to comment on what it considers a private family dispute...
...throughout North America. The title has entered pop culture, with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show referring to Rod Blagojevich, the mop-top governor of Illinois, as "Scumdog Million-hairs." Now Hollywood's élite has joined the chorus. And our industry savant doesn't believe the negative press from India will hurt Slumdog's Oscar chances. Slumdog, he says, "will win everything of substance...
Days later, at a press conference back in Goma, MONUC spokesman Lieut. Colonel Jean-Paul Dietrich described refugees huddling outside U.N. bases as a sign of public confidence. A reporter asked him how MONUC treats the wounded. "If people are injured, we take them to the base," he said. "That's the Geneva Convention...
...their point?" Father George says of MONUC. "They say they protect people, but they do nothing, nothing, nothing." Farther north, at Rwindi, I watched a group of Mai Mai child soldiers as young as 12 march unmolested past the gates of another MONUC base. Later, Dietrich said at the press conference in Goma that this column had been stopped...
KATIE MCCORMICK LELYVELD, press secretary for First Lady Michelle Obama, after a toy company introduced a line of dolls named Sweet Sasha and Marvelous Malia...