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...trade rumors. The most piquant, floated by one French insider, had the Palme d'Or going to the Portuguese film Colossal Youth. If so, this would be the upset of the movie millennium. Variety's Justin Chang described the film as "a numbing, nearly three-hour fusion of documentary and dramatic essay that will hold the Portuguese director's coterie of fans in rapt attention while proving a colossal bore to everyone else...
...city? London's changed just a bit since the [an error occurred while processing this directive] woolly ones regularly walked the streets to market, so to contrast old and new uses of London's roads, the animals will be driven between Borough and Smithfield markets via the ultramodern Millennium Bridge that spans the Thames. Norman Foster, the bridge's architect, plans to lead the way. PETER ACKROYD'S THAMES On the same bridge - the first to be built in London in more than 100 years - bone up on the history of the river and the city it slices...
...President's new proposal to send 6,000 members of the National Guard to help do that, is nominally based on national security. But why then is no one proposing sending additional National Guard troops to secure the U.S.-Canada border? Don't laugh. Ahmed Ressam, the so-called Millennium Bomber, was caught at the Canadian border with a trunk full of explosive precursor material and a plot to bomb Los Angeles Airport. And as for the notion that terrorists are mixing with undocumented border crossers to infiltrate the country from the south, all 19 of the 9/11 plotters entered...
...With the ravages of the Cultural Revolution behind it, China's economy has been growing at around 10% a year since the turn of the millennium. Its defense budget is expanding at the same clip. It routinely threatens Taiwan with war. It has staked out territorial claims in the South China Sea against lesser neighbors. It demands a seat at the table of the great powers, and it forages insistently for oil and gas around the planet. Beijing is softly signaling Washington: "Move over, the Western Pacific is our lake...
...fact, the Millennium Development Goal of reducing poverty by half will be reached in 2015. The largest number of poor people live in India and China, and these countries are making great strides. In other parts of the world, the picture is not so good, but to say the goals are a failure is an oversimplification of reality...