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...prize. But some have found the Gangs gang too aggressive; one ad, which reprinted an Op-Ed column by former Academy president Robert Wise, caused such an uproar among other members it was hastily pulled. How much does an Oscar mean to a man with big projects but no smash hit on his resume? While scouting locations for his next film, The Aviator, the director took time for a chat about the vagaries of awards and joys of filmmaking. --By Richard Corliss...
...support; and minimizing the socio-economic trauma of the war that would complicate efforts to stabilize a post-Saddam Iraq. The plan to drop as many bombs on Iraq in the first 48 hours of the war as were dropped in the entire 1991 Gulf War is designed to smash the regime's power centers and demonstrate to the Iraqi military that the regime they're deployed to defend has already ceased functioning. Washington hopes the "shock and awe" air campaign will prompt the bulk of the Iraqi military to allow the U.S. and its allies to occupy the country...
Last weekend, vaginas vented to packed crowds at the Agassiz. This weekend, it’s the boys’ turn, as the international smash “Puppetry of the Penis” takes Boston...
...urban charge in 2002. The eldest of 11 kids, 21-year-old Niomi McLean-Daley was raised in a North London housing project and broke through emceeing at "open mic" nights. Her debut album, A Little Deeper, mixing U.K. garage and R. and B., was a crossover smash, wowing critics and beating the Streets to the highly respected Mercury Music Prize. Her lyrics denounce the macho posturing and gun culture often associated with the rap scene. Last month she played at an anti-gun event in Birmingham and appeared last week at an antiwar demo in London's Hyde Park...
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Chaos, Continued Embattled President Ange-Felix Patasse called on 1,000 soldiers from the Movement for the Liberation of Congo, a notorious foreign militia, to smash a rebel advance on Bouar, the C.A.R.'s second-largest military base. Since October, rebels loyal to ex-army chief François Bozize have seized 70% of the country, cutting food supplies to the capital. The fighting is the latest in a series of mutinies and coups that began in 1996. Patasse accused France, the former colonial power, of "discrimination" for not sending troops to help the government...