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Leth, a genial gent who serves as Denmark's honorary consul in Haiti, finds each of the obstructions "satanic" and "ruinous." He's like the well-behaved weekend guest of a dotty lord who has refurbished the bedrooms in his country house as torture chambers. But Leth is also a game fellow who realizes, perhaps more quickly than Von Trier, that all art has its rules and that the stranger the rules, the more fun in following and subverting them. Leth's Cuban segment is a suave and colorful abstraction; the cartoon (made in collaboration with Waking Life co-director...
...Iraq consists mainly of Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds?three groups who detest each other. Perhaps the only unifying factor in Iraq is a hatred of the West. For 30 years, Iraqi citizens were suppressed by a brutal dictator who murdered them by the thousands and involved them in ruinous wars while plundering the country for his personal benefit. How can the coalition ever hope to "restore" democracy in Iraq, when it is doubtful that it ever existed there? The solution for the U.S. and its allies is to put a new dictator in charge and go home. David Lenhoff...
Where I come from, if an employee embarked on a major initiative without planning for the long run, misrepresented important facts and made ruinous miscalculations, that employee would be fired, along with his management team. MARIANNE GABEL Delaware, Ohio...
...Where I come from, if an employee embarked on a major initiative without planning for the long run, misrepresented important facts and made ruinous miscalculations, that employee would be fired, along with his management team. Marianne Gabel Delaware...
...nuclear question. Although hard-liners have urged defiance of IAEA demands, President Mohammed Khatami's reformists have warned that failure to comply with the IAEA demands, even if they are deemed unfair in Tehran, would put the Islamic Republic in mortal danger, because the consequences of defiance would be ruinous sanctions and even, possibly...