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...warfare there is a response for almost any development. Other European states adopted the French military model and, working together, defeated Napoleon. The forces of industrial-age war had been unleashed. As noted by Karl von Clausewitz, the foremost military observer of the era, war in theory knows no limits and thus tends naturally to the extreme application of violence...
There is one basic explanation for this. As the libertarian economist Friedrich von Hayek once pointed out, the bulk of information generated in any economy is local in nature. If this local information has to be processed through a centralized hier- archy--whether government ministry or even overly large corporate bureaucracy--it will inevitably be delayed, distorted and manipulated in ways that would not happen in a more decentralized economic-decision-making system. The U.S.S.R. used to have an office called the State Committee on Prices, where a few hundred bureaucrats would sit around setting every price in the Soviet...
...film's director, Lars Von Trier, bounded on stage and accepted a hug from Deneuve, who had co-starred in the film. "Whooooa!" Von Trier cried in ecstatic surprise...
...Von Trier's musical tragedy, which also won a Best Actress prize for Bjork, its leading lady and songwriter, is one of those films that can provoke fistfights or sullen silences among its champions and its detractors. In fact, it engenders a mood almost as acrimonious as that during the film's shooting, with Von Trier reportedly exasperated by his star's intractability, and Bjork at one point walking off the film for four days...
Warning to consummate - indeed competent - professional actresses: do not hope for recognition at Cannes. Instead, the nod will go to clueless amateurs who display their bodies or souls in so raw a manner that the jury will mistake pity for awe and give them the prize. Von Trier had earlier declared that Bjork was no actress, as if those who'd seen the film needed reminding. But Besson and the jury, which included oughta-know-better actors Jeremy Irons and Kristin Scott Thomas, didn't take the hint...