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...Then came the appeals. "Don't vote your fears; vote your aspirations," said one Obama supporter, who talked about how moved she had been when she read his autobiography. The Edwards contingent's designated speaker talked about the candidate's sincerity; Hillary's talked about taking care of Iraq vets. Slowly, the neighbors started drifting toward the corners, each one evoking a cheer as he or she did. By 7:45, it was all over: Edwards had 80, and therefore was allocated three delegates; Clinton had 59 and Obama 54, each netting two delegates...
Bhutto's supporters have demanded an international, independent investigation into the events leading to her death. California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said that Washington needed to answer some "troubling questions" about Pakistan's investigation so far. At yesterday's press conference, Bhutto's husband Zadari demanded a United Nations investigation, saying "We want a [assassinated Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik] Hariri commission-style investigation... we are writing to the United Nations for an international probe into her martyrdom." According to Dawn, a local newspaper Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said that he would "consider" outside...
Possible right-wing fantasy about Hollywood: A year ago, the lockstep liberals who run the movie studios received a directive from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, ordering them to finally make some films about the Iraq-Afghanistan catastrophe. The moguls dutifully complied, bankrolling top directors and Oscar-winning stars to make serious, worthy films eviscerating the Bush Administration's war policy...
Perhaps more disturbing is the recent revelation that members of Congress, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), voiced no objections to these techniques, including waterboarding, in a secret briefing with CIA officials in September 2002. The complicity of both Democrats and Republicans can be understood best by viewing the CIA as a fearful, incompetent bureaucracy...
...their relationship is left very much unexplained, which hinders the audience from connecting with his character or sharing in his joy decades later, when he finds her again. Lara churns out a good performance in her more intense scenes, such as when she is possessed by a frantic Sumerian-speaker. Otherwise, when called upon for subtle acting in normal conversations, her performance becomes lifeless. Such difficulties may be linked to the fact that English is not the mother tongue of this German/Romanian actress. The language barrier may also account for the usually exceptional Swiss actor Bruno Ganz?...