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...Lebanon itself, Hizballah spearheads the opposition drive to unseat the Western-backed government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. The country has been politically gridlocked since November when six ministers - including all five Shi'ites - quit the government. Siniora and his allies accuse Hizballah of pushing an agenda on behalf of Iran and Syria. The frail government has survived strikes and an indefinite opposition sit-in that has paralyzed central Beirut. It retains broad support among Lebanese Sunnis and Druze, and the sympathy of moderate Arab states and the West. The Shi'ite community, Lebanon's largest sect, overwhelmingly sides with...
...himself. He hypnotized the actors in Heart of Glass. He cast Bruno S., who had spent decades in mental institutions, as the star of The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Stroszek. When Nicholson backed out of Fitzcarraldo, Herzog got Jason Robards, who contracted amoebic dysentery and was forced to quit the shoot. (Mick Jagger, another member of the cast, also had to leave.) Herzog wound up with Klaus Kinski, an actor so extreme and unruly, he was his own volcano. They made five films together; Herzog's memoir movie about Kinski is called My Best Fiend...
...People are at least as smart as goats ... Now one of the ways I keep those goats in the fence is I electrified them. Once they got popped a couple of times, they quit trying to jump it.' TRENT LOTT, Republican Senator from Mississippi, on how to deal with illegal immigration on the U.S. border...
...After notching up seven platinum albums in Indonesia with his own band, Dewa 19, he announced his intention to wean millions of his countrymen away from extremist Islamic views. "What happens depends on how we deal with the radicals and teach people about Islam," explains Dhani, who says he quit a religious school as a child because he was put off by its conservative Wahhabi teachings. "It's time to come together, even if we have to do it one song at a time...
...People are at least as smart as goats. Now one of the ways I keep those goats in the fence is I electrified them. Once they got popped a couple of times, they quit trying to jump it.' TRENT LOTT, Republican Senator from Mississippi, on how to deal with illegal immigration at the border...