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...Bryan may also have noticed that Kim and her pal Amanda (Katie Cassidy), left to their own devices, share that special mixture of naiveté and curiosity that makes them idiots. Before they've even gotten out of Charles de Gaulle Airport, they have blithely given their Paris address to a suspiciously friendly fellow who, in short order, dispatches some rough types there to kidnap the girls. The second message of this French-made film: Don't trust the French...
...keeping with romantic-comedy tradition, there is one special widower living in New Ulm. Handsome and hirsute Ted (Harry Connick Jr.) is the local union representative, part-time fireman and possessor of a pickup truck with a snowplow mounted up-front. Playgirl would present him nestled on a bearskin rug, Budweiser in hand. Since Ted represents the worker and the frozen small-town tundra, and Lucy represents the Man and despicable urban living - seriously, did Governor Sarah Palin have a hand in this script? - it's preordained that they will despise each other. For a few scenes, anyway. If only...
...Alan Doss, the U.N. special representative who is the MONUC boss, admits, MONUC is also something of a test of good intentions. "R2P is a huge step forward in terms of the principle of international humanitarian intervention," he says. "But the question remains: How do we actually do it?" A recent trip I made to eastern Congo suggests that question is not yet answered...
...Pakistan, on the other hand, is keen to get Holbrooke involved in the Kashmir dispute, which it has traditionally held is central to its differences with India . President Asif Zardari, in an Op-Ed for the Washington Post, wrote that he hoped the Special Envoy would "work with India and Pakistan...to bring a just and reasonable resolution to [the Kashmir issue...
...moment, the Obama Administration is being careful to publicly distance the Special Envoy from the region's most intractable problem. State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters on Tuesday that "it's not in [Holbrooke's] mandate...to deal with the subject of Kashmir." And the White House has also been careful to deny that India's lobbying played any role in the formation of Holbrooke's diplomatic charge; not only has it insisted that it held no meetings with foreign governments or their representatives with respect to the assignment, but it has also claimed that Obama never actually intended...