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...worthy. The film it beat: Citizen Kane. Who needs all those low-angle shots, the deep-focus cinematography, the oblique, multifaceted view of a powerful publisher? Those aren't innovations; they're ostentations - cinematic showing off. Thus the Academy blew its chance to give due homage to what is still considered the greatest American movie. (See the top 10 Oscar-nomination snubs...
...most calories overall. Women having one to two drinks daily, for example, consumed 1,738 kcal/day, compared to the 1,670 kcal/day of teetotalers, but they took in 177 fewer kcal/day from nonalcoholic sources. Whether or not this substitution is a conscious decision on the women's part still isn't clear and the study wasn't designed to find out. (See a special report on the science of appetite...
...supposed to represent a united European foreign policy, but E.U. politicians still seem reluctant to cede the limelight. If another Iraq ... occurred, how could you ensure a united European response? Let's get out of the limelight first. Someone asked if I would be able to stop the traffic in Washington, but in fact my job is to keep traffic moving. I'm not interested in the limelight. I'm interested in what we can actually do. The way the E.U. approaches the issue is that we will look for a consensus if there is one. It doesn...
...resolve that? You have talked of a "highest common factor" and not a "lowest common denominator." How do you ensure higher ideals? My job is to move the policy on. Not just for the E.U., but other parts of the world. There is the old idea, which still resonates, that you support the ideals you hold. Not to impose, but to help with issues like nation building. To do that, we should be ambitious. There is no lack of ambition in the Foreign Affairs Council. I have to do it within the constraints of needing to build a consensus...
...calm trouble spots, using aid and persuasion where it could, but prepared to send in troops when it had to. Brussels would lead the fight against climate change. And Europe's economies would prove to the ruthless free markets of North America and Asia that the social market still offers the best way out of an economic crunch...