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...breed of propaganda: by doing news programs the (dubious) favor of covering pro-Bush news for them, the administration has taken rabid self-promotion to new depths. In the process, the Bush administration has implicated itself in a dizzying conflict-of-interest, made all the more unethical because the scheme, financed by tax dollars, has taxpayers paying to provide themselves with sly governmental propaganda...
...This country is moving toward Europe," says Olexandr Tkachenko, a business manager and TV producer who supported Yushchenko's orange revolution. "People do not live in Europe if they do not follow certain sets of rules. It means such rules must be created here." Some think the entire scheme is just so much hot air. "I expect all this talk of reprivatization to fizzle out in a couple of weeks," says Volodymyr Rybak, a senior official in the Party of Regions run by Yushchenko's political opponent, Viktor Yanukovych. "We don't need reprivatization. We need more jobs." But Yushchenko...
Rather than Pixar's popping pastels or the warm browns favored by DreamWorks in Antz and Shrek, Robots goes for a color scheme that is cool, muted, instantly aged. Director Chris Wedge wants the eye to concentrate on the gags he and his writers (including veteran comedy craftsmen Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel) have stuffed into the film, like the glancing mention of a woman whose "dream is to end world rust." This will keep adults amused while the kids focus on Robot City's highway system, which is like a theme park designed by Rube Goldberg...
...mutate into intransigence. And a task force, established by the government last August and headed by University of Sydney law professor Patrick Parkinson, will report soon with ideas on reforming that instrument of justice that enrages separated parents, mostly fathers, as nothing else does: the wage-garnishing Child Support Scheme. On the eve of the changes there's cause for both optimism and hardheaded caution. "I'm not convinced I'll put in place the perfect system," says Ruddock. "I don't feel I'm God. But I do think we can do a hell of a lot better than...
...Unless you enjoy an earbashing, it's best not to get separated men started on child support, a complex scheme of formulas and exemptions through which, in 2003-04, $A2.19 billion was transferred between parents. High on a long list of complaints is that the ex-wife doesn't have to account for how the money is spent: maybe the latest payment went toward school fees, or maybe it funded gym membership for her and her new boyfriend. Adding insult to injury, the way child support works is that the less contact you have with your children, the more...