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White has tried to take advantage of a potential $11 billion state-budget shortfall, deriding Perry's support for a 5% across-the-board budget scrub as "Soviet-style" management. Unfortunately, his criticism of Perry's style was accompanied with a refusal to rule out tax increases - a position the Perry campaign pounced on. Perry pollster Mike Baselice says White's support for taxes, national health care reform and cap-and-trade legislation help define him as a "McGovern liberal...
...Film Festival (NYICFF), which runs through March 21, understand that their target is not really children. This year's special attraction, for example, is a retrospective of 50 years of French animation. For those who find that too trifling a diversion, there's In the Attic, touted as a "Soviet-era allegory" by "legendary Czech stop-motion animation master Jiri Barta." No? How about the U.S. premiere of the German Expressionist film Little White Lies, which foreshadows the arrival of fascism through the microcosm of one school...
...Unlike other Taliban officials who defected after U.S.-led forces swept into Afghanistan, Zaeef still has credibility with Taliban fighters. He is said to be respected by Omar, whom he has known and fought alongside since he was a teenager in the 1980s, taking potshots at Soviet soldiers. Zaeef's views are said to reflect those of the Taliban leadership. As such, he may be poised to play a key role in any future peace talks between Karzai and the Taliban's governing council. And, according to Zaeef, there is room for maneuver. He insists that the Taliban...
...befriended the likes of Che Guevara. His reporting formed the basis for widely acclaimed books such as The Emperor, about the life of the eccentric Ethiopian leader Haile Selassie; Shah of Shahs, about the fall of the Iranian ruler Reza Pahlavi; and Imperium, on the last days of the Soviet Union. Salman Rushdie once said of Kapuscinski, "He is worth a thousand whimpering and fantasizing scribblers...
...Guevara or Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese freedom fighter who became the Democratic Republic of Congo's first Prime Minister in 1960. He also says Kapuscinski never received an 11th-hour reprieve from a firing squad in Congo in the 1960s and that his father had never been a Soviet prisoner of war, as Kapuscinski had claimed. In addition, Domoslawski, a journalist at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest paper, claims that Kapuscinski served as a spy for the communists in his travels around the world, noting that it was nearly impossible to leave Poland at that time without signing a cooperation...