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...Number of federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies involved in the roundup...
...Manuel Barroso's recast team, a new embarrassment emerged: Frenchman Jacques Barrot, the new Commissioner for Transport, was found guilty in 2000 of "abuse of confidence" in connection with a party funding scandal. Barrot was pardoned by French President Jacques Chirac and his conviction was expunged. Another Roundup SPAIN Police arrested 19 suspected members of the Basque terrorist group ETA in raids in the north of the country. ETA sent a message to a Basque radio station threatening further violence against the armed forces, police and civilians working for them...
...cleaning and shopping worries ahead of them.? Yet Phyllis was clairvoyant about issue-oriented daytime TV. She told the Washington Post: ?Women want to hear about other problems besides how to fix flowers in a pot.? Jack Gould, the TV critic for the Times, agreed. In a 1952 roundup of the medium, he highlighted ?It?s My Problem? as a show that ?provides a thoroughly adult discussion of child psychology and family difficulties...
...opening crawl of Star Wars - announcing the film as "Episode IV: A New Hope" - stoked an endless stream of sequels, threequels and prequels, some inspired only by greed for blockbuster status they will never attain. Among this summer's underperformers are a sequel (The Chronicles of Riddick), a roundup of old movie monsters (Van Helsing) and two dips into antique legend (Troy and King Arthur). Studios might have risked less if they'd actually tried something original. Sequels flourish especially in conservative times, when audiences are in retreat from the shock of the new. Which is why you could place...
...opening crawl of Star Wars--announcing the film as "Episode IV: A New Hope"--stoked an endless stream of sequels, threequels and prequels, some inspired only by greed for blockbuster status they will never attain. Among this summer's underperformers are a sequel (The Chronicles of Riddick), a roundup of old movie monsters (Van Helsing) and two dips into antique legend (Troy and King Arthur). Studios might have risked less if they'd actually tried something original...