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...Steeled Nerves European Commission President Romano Prodi announced a package of tariffs designed to protect European steel producers in the wake of surcharges decided by the U.S.E.U. tariffs of between 14.9% and 26% will apply only to imports beyond a certain quota and will be in effect for six months. Imports from developing countries will be exempt. "Unfounded, unnecessary and unfair U.S. action has forced us to take temporary steps to look after E.U. industry and E.U. workers," said trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy. E.U. officials said they feared a 15 million-ton surge in steel imports blocked by planned...
...They came, they thawed, they conquered!" Could there be a snazzier ad line for a computer-animated feature about three prehistoric buddies? This freezin' threesome--a woolly mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano), a saber-toothed tiger (Denis Leary) and a sloth (John Leguizamo)--survives plot challenges of no particular ingenuity. The film breaks anthropological ground by revealing that humans lived in the Ice Age, but its contribution to cartoon history is more modest. It yearns for Pixar-style wit without quite earning...
...United Sates is also bound together by a federal tax code, something that “Euroland” decisively lacks. Interest rates have profoundly different effects depending on the tax rates in the areas where they apply. This has led Romano Prodi, the President of the European Union, to complain that as long as the EU does not have a standardized tax policy it will be “like a soldier trying to march with a ball and chain around one leg.” Joschka Fischer, the German Foreign Minister was rather more revealing when he said...
...come into play? Pete and Paul (Peter Berg of “Chicago Hope,” and Chris Penn of Rush Hour), Corky’s brothers, have come up with an elaborate and ingenious scheme. They plan to infiltrate the FBI and steal the evidence against Papa Romano, and they need Corky to be the sacrificial lamb. While this crazy plot seems enough with regard to typical comedies, Corky Romano takes it a step further. In order to pull their plan off, Pete and Paul intimidate a computer hacker into making Corky a new identity with...
...bewilderment—but not from the ingenuity of the plot (for there was none) nor from the excellence of the cast’s acting (which are mediocre at best). You’re bewildered because you’re wondering what exactly the point was behind Corky Romano. In fact, don’t go to the theater at all. Such a pointless and meaningless movie is better suited for rental...