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...King of England he briefly does. When we meet him, however, he is being discharged, penniless, from a Communist-era Czechoslovakian prison, having served a term of almost 15 years because more or less accidentally, and certainly without malice aforethought, he ended up - very profitably - on the Nazi side during the war. After jail, he's exiled to a remote corner of the country, where he has plenty of time to reflect on the error of his ways. His recollections form the substance of writer-director Jirí Menzel's wry yet wiry fable...
...Competition, a nursery for the NRL. "Me and Willie were always stronger than the other kids," says Penese, who'd scatter opponents with a cattle-prod-like fend. Both say they were targeted by referees and implored by parents to take it easy. Isa contends there are two distinct sides of him: the aggressive, ultra-competitive footballer and the otherwise gentle man. Young Willie would crunch his fine-boned foes, then approach them after the game to say sorry. But the smaller boys had trouble reconciling the two Willies and rarely replied. "It's a Polynesian thing," says...
...Nevertheless, Denette Mason, a former Chicago teacher, says she will keep her two children out of school Sept. 2, though she's not sure yet where or how they'll spend the day of protest. Having taught on Chicago's hardscrabble South Side for years, Mason has seen firsthand what educators are up against. Often, she remembers, students had to share textbooks because there simply weren't enough to go around. "[Kids] deserve to be in schools where they can learn all they can and have proper materials," she says. "They deserve to have a chance in life...
...have in the two people running for president, interestingly, two people who represent very different views of how to solve the challenges we face," he said at one of his first stops, a lunchtime meeting with the press, organized by the Christian Science Monitor. "On one side, with Barack Obama, you have an individual who I believe is a very charming and charismatic celebrity and senator, a nominee for the Democratic position to become president...
...military personnel appearing in a foreign court after Sept. 11 led President Bush in 2002 to withdraw the tentative U.S. support for the International Criminal Court that had been offered by President Clinton during the last year of his tenure. That stance left the United States on the same side of the issue as other nations opposed to the ICC, such as Sudan, Iran and North Korea...