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...inspectors' upbeat assessments. Privately, his aides trashed them--"Pathetically unaggressive, amateurish and believing everything the Iraqis tell them," a senior State Department official said--and claimed that the inspectors are ignoring tips from U.S. intelligence and capitulating to Iraqi intimidation. Inspectors vehemently deny the charges. But Powell's Russian and French counterparts hailed the reports of progress and repeated their threats to block passage of the Anglo-American resolution. French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin rejected the idea that the British amendment amounted to a compromise, saying, "We would not accept a resolution that will lead...
...RUSSIAN ARK. The latest film from Russian director Alexander Sokurov uses 2,000 actors and thirty-five rooms of The Hermitage museum to bring 300 years of Russian history to life. Even more astonishingly, the film is presented in one single 95 minute, continuous, unedited, technologically and artistically miraculous SteadiCam shot. Critical awe—from Roger Ebert to the Village Voice (in which it appeared on five of six critics’ top-ten lists for 2002) —has followed wherever it goes. Russian Ark screens...
...offer. His musical and expressive range is impressive and his execution is spirited. His pure love for Olga is discernible in the vibrato of his ample voice. Erin Baker’s Olga, on the other hand, had a far too guttural and nasal voice, and her Russian was incessantly garbled...
...opera is presented in the original Russian with supertitles. Unfortunately, as the opera progresses, it becomes difficult to follow both the stage action and the translation simultaneously. Those who do not understand Russian and who are also unfamiliar with the opera’s storyline might be frustrated by the lagging titles above the stage...
...empty 40 bottles to take a picture with them. When I comment on the two half-finished King Cobras on the table, Adam moves them to the floor. “No one has to know,” he says to me. “Just like Russian history...