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...president now looks a virtual certainty. "Mr Le Pen's negationist remarks, reiterated once again in the European Parliament, disqualify him from chairing the inaugural session of our institution for even a second," said Joseph Daul, the French leader of the Christian Democrats in the parliament. "In this symbol of the reconciliation of European people, it would be an extremely bad signal for our citizens and the world," agreed Martin Schultz, leader of Socialist Euro MPs. "As a German, I have a duty to fight this...
...streets of Pune. People swerved and tailgated to get a closer look, waving and shouting, "Hey, Nano!" as the car passed. When we stopped, a crowd immediately gathered. "It looks very appealing to the eye," says Bhagwat Pulsandar, 25, a Pune law student. "Possessing a car is a status symbol," says Rajib Das, 30, a shopkeeper in Sukantonagar, West Bengal, who says he wants to be the first in his village to own a Nano. "Who wouldn't want to rise in life?" (See pictures of muscle cars...
...famous illusion in which he finds money that the audience has hidden, his performances are not particularly exciting. It is difficult to muster the same desire to learn the secrets of his tricks that his audiences in the film seem to have. Buck is supposed to be a symbol of small-town America; he may not be glamorous and he has lost his nationwide fame, but he maintains a sense of pride in what he does. Toward the end of the film, Buck admits to Troy, “I don’t really belong in Vegas anymore...
...shouldn’t we try and change that?”Many of the movie’s problems likely stem from the stage-to-screen transplant. The strictly color-coded groups of students are carelessly presented in the film, but would have more easily emerged as symbolic in a play. The coordinated yells of the supposedly riotous crowd sound more like the choreographed gangs of Bob Fosse than the visceral mobs of Spike Lee.A twist concerning the culprit of the original threats offers an interesting initial shock, but the lack of satisfying explanation renders it irrelevant...
Even today, news articles cite the looting in 2003 as a symbol of the chaos that followed the invasion. Is that fair...