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...paired up men and women, giving each couple a precise location and activity to perform. Silverman’s task—offering to pour his date a glass of punch—was relatively simple, while Jacobs’ required him to smoke several herbal cigarettes from the prop department...
...finance laws kick in. Democrats have raised one-third less than the G.O.P. and are madly shuffling funds from state to state, depending on who is viewed as "the most vulnerable Democrat of the week," in the words of one strategist. Party officials concede that the need to help prop up Torricelli prevented them from funneling money to Oregon, where, with enough help, challenger Bill Bradbury might stand a chance against incumbent Republican Gordon Smith. Now it may betoo late. "The fact that we're talking about the real possibility of picking up seats in the House, and of taking...
...France last week sent some 70 soldiers from the 11th Parachute Brigade to set up a tactical headquarters for the 1,000 French troops already deployed. The troops' arrival marks a shift in France's policy toward her former African colonies. In the past, France regularly sent soldiers to prop up governments and dictators close to Paris. But following criticism of France's role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide - France allegedly continued to arm and support Rwanda's Hutu-led government even after the murder of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu began - President Chirac declared that...
...Iraq - where so many Labourites have profound disagreements with Tony Blair. These annual rituals are a funny mix of theater, trading floor and reunion. You can see Cabinet ministers getting buttonholed by irate local officials or chatting amiably about former Prime Minister John Major's sex scandal as they prop up the bar the night before their big speeches. Once the scene of brutal factional brawls, the conference in Blair's era has been systematically drained of strife. So this year two things were striking: that Blair came in for something of a rough ride, and that old-fashioned oratory...
...living that the American war on terrorism is, indeed, a cause for spilling more blood. The hierarchy of the dead serves to reinforce the militancy and vindictiveness that have driven the policies of our nation’s unelected hereditary ruler. He has used the patriotic rage to prop up or to bully fellow unelected leaders who have allowed their citizens to indulge in an irrational hatred of America. But as long as those leaders remain pliant providers of oil to America, they are exempted from military reprisal. The president has used the “patriotism card?...