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...Milos Forman's film (which he co-wrote with Jean-Claude Carriere, the great French screenwriter, perhaps most famous for his collaborations with Luis Bunuel) Goya's escapist politics is another sign of his modernism. The great artists of the 20th Century sympathized with "progressive" causes, but rarely played a heroic role in them. But the entire film is less an exercise in historicism (though the portrait of the painter is accurate enough, as is the depiction of historical events, the story is pure fiction) than it is an elaborate analogy with our own times. This is quite understandable - Forman...
...upper class. But he is wrong if he believes that the 47 million people without health insurance and the working class in general have no reason to feel pessimistic. As Kristol stated, unemployment is low. But the rise in low-paying and insecure "McJobs" is not a sign that all boats are being lifted. As long as the income gap between rich and poor continues to soar, there will be increasing pessimism. Joe Burke, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI...
...sign of the frenzy is deal jumping. In the past, such a tactic was rare in the private-equity club. Historically, going-private transactions were bumped only when a strategic buyer jumped in, such as Whirlpool Corp. against Ripplewood in the Maytag contest, or Building Materials Corp. of America's attempt to bust up the Carlyle Group's buyout of ElkCorp. For PE investors deal jumping was considered a faux pas. "It has long been suspected that there is an unwritten gentleman's agreement among private-equity firms to refrain from jumping each other's deals," said Chris Young, director...
...waitress came rushing out of the diner in Manchester, N.H., with a guest book for Joe Biden to sign and stayed to tell a story. Her name was Michelle Griffin, and she had just returned to work after being ill for two years. Her husband was working two jobs. They were putting two daughters through college. They had no health insurance. "There were times when I thought we wouldn't make it ..." she said, and tears filled her eyes. Biden put his hands on her shoulders, and his forehead on hers-an awkward but touching gesture-and she shuddered into...
...Kony was indicted, along with three other commanders, by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Kony and his co-defendants say that they want the government to scrap the multiple-count indictment. If not, the rebels warn that they will not sign a peace agreement that is being hammered out in Juba, in southern Sudan, between the Ugandan government...