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...keep it up? As summer ends, the fast-moving "Sarko Show" has begun drawing criticism. Opponents complain that Sarkozy's sunny-day successes don't all bear up under scrutiny: was the Libyan triumph linked to troubling nuclear and military contracts? Does Sarkozy's penchant for economic interventionism, visible in Sept. 3's megamerger between utility giants Gaz de France and Suez, mock his free-market rhetoric? Time asked a group of French and international experts to evaluate the spectacular start to the Sarkozy era and how - or whether - he can meet that promise in the months and years...
...rugby league films. This Sporting Life, the 1963 English production starring Richard Harris, is regarded as the only really good one. Now it has company. The Final Winter, made on a shoestring by a bunch of novices, including co-directors Jane Forrest and Brian Andrews, is a gem, a triumph for adherence to two axioms of football: keep it simple and get the little things right. Its backdrop is league in early-1980s Sydney, but after a burst of action in the first 10 minutes, it shines as a drama exploring the limits of loyalty and what it means...
...find new angles to present the same stories and the same footage over and over again. Legal experts and social scientists have been brought out to hail Dutt and Khan's sentences - at the end of court cases that dragged on for 14 and 9 years, respectively - as a triumph of justice over influence, and even stardom...
...bluefin tuna, for instance, the most prized sushi fish in Japan, is already imperiled. And the bluefin may only be the first to disappear: as Corson notes, scientists have estimated that all of the world's ocean fish will be gone by 2050. The sushi boom may represent the triumph of benign globalization, but its net effect will be emptier seas...
...strangely grateful ... Then we went to Taltala Bazaar, and there was a very poor woman dying I think of starvation more than TB ... I gave her something which will help her to sleep. - I wonder how long she will last." But two months later, shortly after her major triumph of locating a space for her headquarters, Kolodiejchuk's files find her troubled. "What tortures of loneliness," she wrote. "I wonder how long will my heart suffer this?" This complaint could be understood as an initial response to solitude and hardship were it not for subsequent letters. The more success Teresa...