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...much to disagree with there. But while common purpose was being espoused in Brussels, Umberto Bossi, head of Italy's once-separatist Northern League and part of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's governing coalition, was characterizing the E.U. as a "Stalinist European super state, the Soviet Union of the West." Meanwhile in Germany, the sputtering economic engine of Europe, the exigencies of an election campaign are re-intensifying the lively tradition of blaming Brussels. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, having quashed a European Commission warning letter over his government's mounting deficit, appears ready to wage his domestic campaign against...
...thousands of Iraqi civilians, unspeakable crimes against countless more Kuwaitis and unprovoked Scud missile attacks against Israel. Iran’s leadership shipped a boatload of arms to Palestinian terrorists and is trying to undermine the caretaker government in Afghanistan. North Korea is the world’s last Stalinist state; its leadership pursues long-range missiles and nuclear weapons as millions face starvation...
...remains "eager to have pragmatic and straightforward talks with North Korea." He told South Koreans that the North had been cited not because of any terrorist connections, but out of concern over its weapons of mass destruction. But Washington and Seoul remain divided over how to deal with the Stalinist regime in the North. South Korean officials said Thursday that the U.S. and Seoul would "offer a series of incentives to the North in order to bring it to the negotiating table.'' But Hubbard appeared to suggest that the U.S. believed in straight talking rather than concessions. President Bush visits...
...Winthrop Junior Common Room opposite a festive, impressionistic scene of Memorial Church at commencement, Thenjiwe N. Nkosi’s harsh outlines delineate fantastically Stalinist buildings, “moments in South African history.” Carefully adhering to a scheme of stark contrasts in grey, white and black, Nkosi ’04 creates wintry, nightmarish images of apocalypse...
...send their best sniper (Ed Harris) to kill the killer. Not so much a war movie as a western with a shoot-out every 10 minutes, Enemy is the big puffy drama we expect from the director of Quest for Fire and The Lover. There's a stolid, almost Stalinist cast to the compositions and a drably desaturated palette--apparently Russia was so poor in the '40s that it couldn't afford full color. But Law, sexy and crafty as ever, and here with a flinty innocence, proves again he has the star-quality goods...