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...another distinguished foreigner who liked his girls young. It happens that "The Pianist" was a perfect comeback film: a Holocaust film that (like "Schindler's List") is about a Jew outliving Hitler with the help of the goyim; and a semi-autobiography of Polanski, himself a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and after all these years eligible to be considered not a cunning predator but a wily victim. It's also a good movie in Hollywood epic style: a precise, conventional melodrama that teems with acute observations on the behavior of besieged people in ever more extreme circumstances. Last night...
...Charles de Gaulle who first charted this course. He tried to break away from the U.S. by, for example, ordering American troops out of France and withdrawing from the military structure of NATO. But during the cold war this was not realistic. The Soviet threat loomed. Today, with the Warsaw Pact dead, France can safely make its reach for grandeur...
...always the simplest motivator for people to turn up: the prospect of no job at all. As the economic downturn lingers on, some European authorities are reporting declines in absenteeism. "When people are worried they may lose their jobs," says Wieslaw Lagodzinski, spokesman for the Central Statistical Office in Warsaw, "they have much more respect for work." In Germany, where the 11.1% unemployment rate is at its highest for 10 years, absenteeism is at its lowest level since 1991. A sick economy, it seems, can make for a healthier workforce...
...their handsets. The signal - a news broadcast from TV 3, a public station in Bratislava, Slovakia - was picked up by a server in Prague and compressed for viewing on a mobile phone. From there the signal was bounced to the subscribers' global packet radio switched (GPRS) network account in Warsaw, then transferred via automatic roaming to the Orange GPRS network in Cannes, and then on to the subscribers' Nokia 3650 phones on the Sunny Dream. The demo was part of this year's big story at the 3GSM World Congress mobile technology trade fair in Cannes: video streaming over mobile...
...DIED. KAZIMIERZ DEJMEK, 78, Polish stage director and political dissident; in Warsaw. Born in what was then the Polish city of Kovle (now in Ukraine), Dejmek staged plays that strongly criticized the Communist government. His most famous work was a 1968 production of Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady (Forefathers), which led to mass student protests after it was shut down by the government...