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...Oily Trade-Off Your article about an increase in investment in African oil fields set off tremors of anxiety [June 11]. I fail to understand why the West has not learned from past investment in Middle Eastern oil. The money earned from the West by Arabs and Iranians is the major reason for all the troubles in the West. Do Western governments believe that reducing their dependence on Middle Eastern oil and shifting the money into African hands will reduce their problems? That is a utopian dream. Africans with loads of money will be a far greater threat to Western...
...Japan could have easily ended up divided like its wartime ally Germany had the Soviet Union decided to invade Tokyo's defenseless northern island of Hokkaido in the closing weeks of the war. What stopped the Russians, Kyuma argued, was the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "I understand that the bombings brought the war to its end," said Kyuma. "I think it was something that couldn't be helped...
...American - and as a woman, no less - in an Islamic country. After selling cupcakes to fellow expats in Cairo, she and an Egyptian friend opened a restaurant only to see the business and the friendship go bust. She hung on, learned Arabic and read the Koran to better understand the culture and in 1996 sank every penny into launching Lucille's, a cozy place with 13 booths and tables. One of her rewards is that she may be about to go regional if not global; lately, investors have been clamoring to franchise Lucille's all over the Middle East...
...history: "I read articles about great first films. I have never seen Toy Story listed. Is that not as impressive as, say [Spielberg's] Sugarland Express?" He also feels animators are ignored at Oscar time: "An animation director has never been nominated for best director. Ever. People don't understand what directors of animated films...
...doesn't normally wear a toque. There's also a logical-logistical challenge. Remy, too small to do the handiwork himself, hides in the toque and directs Linguini's movements by tugging on tufts of the kid's hair. Thus does he manipulate Linguini's arms, legs, shoulders! We understand that the boy is the rat's marionette - but strings through his entire body? Whatever quibbles you may have, you would have to be an idiot of elephantine proportions not to appreciate Ratatouille's grace, humor and power...