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...cable-news forums [MEDIA, June 30], Karen Tumulty identified some of the problems that a liberal would face in trying to compete with the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. My theory about the hosts of conservative talk shows is summed up beautifully by a quote from Bertrand Russell: "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." SCOTT TYSON New York City...
...part of a $146 million package of loans to the government that was suspended after the 2000 elections, in which the first lady’s husband—Jean-Bertrand Aristide—secured the presidency. Seven senatorial seats were contested and the controversy ignited questions concerning the legitimacy of the Aristide government...
...some European cities are trying tough love. They are finally, haltingly, aiming to make things unbearable for the rush-hour driver - to shove him violently out of his car. Think of it as a collective intervention, confronting drivers about their addiction in order to save them. Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, has launched a campaign against traffic jams, known as bouchons (also the word for the cork of a wine bottle). His first major act has been to impose new bus and bike lanes on busy boulevards, squeezing out car space and increasing average bus speeds...
...earned rave reviews and three nominations at this year's BAFTA awards. The film has a second-generation British director, a British screenwriter and British backers - yet was considered insufficiently British, since it was shot in India with Indian actors speaking Hindi. "I'm appalled," says The Warrior producer Bertrand Faivre. "The Academy is just ignorant about how the world is changing." The U.K. instead submitted Welsh-language Eldra - though at least twice as many people in the U.K. speak Hindi as speak Welsh...
...French continued to make movies during Germany's World War II occupation, and as long as they didn't criticize the Nazis, they did so with surprising freedom. Bertrand Tavernier's Safe Conduct is an epic (almost three hours long) reconstruction of that era--comic, suspenseful, romantic. It's a richly populated movie, focusing most intently on a clever assistant director (Jacques Gamblin) who is desperately balancing the demands of career, family and Resistance activities. The film's great set piece is his sober-hilarious overnight flight to Britain on underground business, which must be completed in time...