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...dramatic reversal of the Bush Administration's longstanding taboo on talking to the Islamic Republic, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signaled Wednesday that the U.S. is willing to join three key European Union countries at the negotiating table with Iran, on the condition that Iran verifiably suspends its uranium enrichment activities. As Secretary Rice said, "President Bush wants a new and positive relationship between the American people and the people of Iran - a beneficial relationship of increased contacts in education, cultural exchange, sports, travel, trade, and investment... The United States looks forward to a new relationship between our peoples that...
...everybody, however, views conservation as such a taboo topic. The cantankerous Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa has made repeat appearances on CNBC this week to bark out a stern conservation message. "If everyone cut back their driving by 3% we?d have gasoline coming out of our ears!" he told viewers. But he's one of the few lawmakers willing to publicly encourage cutting back. The President's four-point plan to reduce gas prices includes no mention of encouraging personal conservation - even though he has in the past pushed measures that create incentives to do so like giving...
...when people get upset,” Durang says in a phone interview from his home, laughing. “When I’m writing, I think everyone’s just going to agree with me.”Durang might not intend to provoke, but his taboo subject matter (abortion, homosexuality, child abuse, and the Catholic Church just to name a few topics), coupled with his characteristically absurdist style, rarely fails to spark interest.A SERIOUS SATIRISTDurang was raised in a Catholic home in New Jersey and attended Catholic school before arriving at Harvard in 1967. He wrote...
...DIED. VILGOT SJ?MAN, 81, maverick Swedish film director and prot?g? of Ingmar Bergman whose taboo-challenging, sexually explicit 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow) was briefly banned by U.S. censors before going on to become the most profitable foreign film in America until 1994, when Like Water for Chocolate broke the record; in Stockholm...
DIED. Vilgot Sjoman, 81, maverick Swedish film director and protg of Ingmar Bergman whose taboo-challenging, sexually explicit 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow) was briefly banned by U.S. censors before going on to become the most profitable foreign film in America until 1994, when Like Water for Chocolate broke the record; in Stockholm...