Les Claypool - World-of-Newave.info http://answers.world-of-newave.info/les-claypool.htm Latest news and articles about Les Claypool en-us Copyright (c)2004-2008. All rights reserved. webmaster@world-of-newave.com (Webmaster) Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:37:24 GMT Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:37:24 GMT Newave Lisa XML Engine v1.0 - http://www.world-of-newave.info/about.htm 60 http://www.world-of-newave.info/images/wi8831.gif World-of-Newave.info - Knowledge and Informational Database http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 88 31 {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - SPRING GETAWAY! French Cottage, Jacuzzi, WiFi, Walk to CASTLE (Dordogne, Perigord, SW FRANCE) http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/spring-getaway-french-cottage-jacuzzi-wifi-walk-20081148526.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/spring-getaway-french-cottage-jacuzzi-wifi-walk-20081148526.htm Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:09:23 GMT Les Gites Fleuris are 2 traditional stone Perigordian farmhouses perched on a hill with a fantastic view. The feel is "away from it all", yet, you can walk 1km down the country lane to get to all life's necessities: supermarket, boulangerie, restaurants, bar, bank, etc... Avoid the really crowded areas of the Dordogne, and relax here, then go visit the amazing world heritage sites! La Petite Rose is a charming restored traditional 18th c. stone 1 bedroom home with a fully equipped kitchen, bathroom, living room with big fireplace, TV with DVD player, wireless internet access, and CD player. The living room has a sofa sleeper, so the house can sleep 4. The Wisteria House is a beautifully restored traditional stone farmhouse with a fully equipped kitchen, bathroom, separate WC, living room with big stone fireplace, TV, DVD player, wireless internet access, and CD player. The 3 bedrooms, all upstairs, have the traditional feature of beamed ceilings and fantastic views out of the windows. The balcony has a wonderful valley view, the best view on the property, and is a great place to have a glass of wine at sunset! Relaxation is easy, either poolside on the sundeck, in the Jacuzzi, or on a hammock; or enjoy a peaceful stroll of the property acreage of fruit and walnut trees. The property is family friendly with:ping-pong, badminton/volleyball, croquet, swings, and a raised fort with climbing wall and slide. An indoor games room will keep all the family entertained with games, toys, ping pong, and Disney video cassettes. There is a central laundry room with washing machines and dryers which you can use at no extra charge. Hautefort is a great bicycling and walking area with rolling hillsides and lovely forest and valley views. Walk out your front door, and you can take an amazing countryside walk! Watch for birds of prey, deer, foxs, and many more animals. Take a walk over to the beautiful etang du coucou, 2.5km, a lovely wooded lake that you can swim or fish at. Perigord is THE place to go if you love FOOD! especially truffles and foie gras. This little corner of Southwest France is home to the black truffle, one of the most famous and expensive luxury foods of France. (Truffle Markets are open in Winter!) It is also the land of foie gras-- that typical French delicacy made from fattened goose or duck liver, along with other Canard specialty dishes. We have many good restaurants in the area. The wine regions of Bergerac and Bordeaux are only 1 hour to 1.5 hours away. This area has so much history that it is sure to capture the imaginations and interests of everyone in the family! There are many famous tourist sites: grottes (caves), Troglodyte sites, Bastille towns, Castles, and old villages are within a 1-hour radius away (Lascaux is only 20 minutes).Valley's with castles where one can easily imagine bandits, knights in armor and the primitive life of the peasants. Many sporting activities in the area: basketball, tennis, soccer, volleyball, bocce, canoeing, fishing, etc... Step back in time to the old France of farms and castles and caves and stone villages; and after touring, enjoy a wonderful bottle of Bergerac or Bordeaux Wine with some of France's famous cheeses! And after a day of touring, unwind in the Jacuzzi and enjoy the unobstructed view of the myriad of stars! Reviews: tripadvisor.com Read a newly published magazine article about us (summer 2008) http://www.eldr.com/article/travel/french-paradise Read a letter published about us in the San Francisco newspaper: FOLLOW THE READER, SF CHRONICLE JULY 9, 2006: “A cottage of one's own in rural France” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/09/TRGEIJPTDB12.DTL&hw=france&sn=009&sc=925 Sfbay.Craigslist.Org SPRING GETAWAY! French Cottage, Jacuzzi, WiFi, Walk to CASTLE (Dordogne, Perigord, SW FRANCE) {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Les Gites Fleuris are 2 traditional stone Perigordian farmhouses perched on a hill with a fantastic view. The feel is "away from it all", yet, you can walk 1km down the country lane to get to all life's necessities: supermarket, boulangerie, restaurants, bar, bank, etc... Avoid the really crowded areas of the Dordogne, and relax here, then go visit the amazing world heritage sites! La Petite Rose is a charming restored traditional 18th c. stone 1 bedroom home with a fully equipped kitchen, bathroom, living room with big fireplace, TV with DVD player, wireless internet access, and CD player. The living room has a sofa sleeper, so the house can sleep 4. The Wisteria House is a beautifully restored traditional stone farmhouse with a fully equipped kitchen, bathroom, separate WC, living room with big stone fireplace, TV, DVD player, wireless internet access, and CD player. The 3 bedrooms, all upstairs, have the traditional feature of beamed ceilings and fantastic views out of the windows. The balcony has a wonderful valley view, the best view on the property, and is a great place to have a glass of wine at sunset! Relaxation is easy, either poolside on the sundeck, in the Jacuzzi, or on a hammock; or enjoy a peaceful stroll of the property acreage of fruit and walnut trees. The property is family friendly with:ping-pong, badminton/volleyball, croquet, swings, and a raised fort with climbing wall and slide. An indoor games room will keep all the family entertained with games, toys, ping pong, and Disney video cassettes. There is a central laundry room with washing machines and dryers which you can use at no extra charge. Hautefort is a great bicycling and walking area with rolling hillsides and lovely forest and valley views. Walk out your front door, and you can take an amazing countryside walk! Watch for birds of prey, deer, foxs, and many more animals. Take a walk over to the beautiful etang du coucou, 2.5km, a lovely wooded lake that you can swim or fish at. Perigord is THE place to go if you love FOOD! especially truffles and foie gras. This little corner of Southwest France is home to the black truffle, one of the most famous and expensive luxury foods of France. (Truffle Markets are open in Winter!) It is also the land of foie gras-- that typical French delicacy made from fattened goose or duck liver, along with other Canard specialty dishes. We have many good restaurants in the area. The wine regions of Bergerac and Bordeaux are only 1 hour to 1.5 hours away. This area has so much history that it is sure to capture the imaginations and interests of everyone in the family! There are many famous tourist sites: grottes (caves), Troglodyte sites, Bastille towns, Castles, and old villages are within a 1-hour radius away (Lascaux is only 20 minutes).Valley's with castles where one can easily imagine bandits, knights in armor and the primitive life of the peasants. Many sporting activities in the area: basketball, tennis, soccer, volleyball, bocce, canoeing, fishing, etc... Step back in time to the old France of farms and castles and caves and stone villages; and after touring, enjoy a wonderful bottle of Bergerac or Bordeaux Wine with some of France's famous cheeses! And after a day of touring, unwind in the Jacuzzi and enjoy the unobstructed view of the myriad of stars! Reviews: tripadvisor.com Read a newly published magazine article about us (summer 2008) http://www.eldr.com/article/travel/french-paradise Read a letter published about us in the San Francisco newspaper: FOLLOW THE READER, SF CHRONICLE JULY 9, 2006: “A cottage of one's own in rural France” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/09/TRGEIJPTDB12.DTL&hw=france&sn=009&sc=925
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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Travel and Tourism > Lodging {ISSUES > BIAS AND BALANCE} - In disparaging possible sec. of state appointment for Clinton, on MSNBC and CNN, Hitchens offered purported 15-year-old quote he has yet to source http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/in-disparaging-possible-sec-of-state-appointment-20081158223.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/in-disparaging-possible-sec-of-state-appointment-20081158223.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:50:50 GMT Contemplating the possible nomination of Sen. Hillary Clinton to be secretary of state, commentator and author Christopher Hitchens, a frequent and harsh Clinton critic, revived the unsubstantiated claim that Hillary Clinton blocked any action by the Clinton administration in war-torn Bosnia in 1993 because she didn't want it to interfere with passage of her health-care plan. In reviving the claim on MSNBC's Hardball, MSNBC's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and CNN's Larry King Live between November 17 and November 19, Hitchens purported to quote Hillary Clinton demanding of Bill Clinton that he not intervene in Bosnia, lest, in Hitchens' words on the November 17 Hardball, it "spoil my wonderful health-care plan, which should be front and center." In a March 31 article for Slate.com, Hitchens cited Sally Bedell Smith's For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years for the claim that Hillary Clinton blocked Clinton administration intervention in Bosnia, but the book does not support Hitchens' claim; it does not mention Hitchens' purported quote or otherwise assert that Hillary Clinton directed Bill Clinton not to take action in Bosnia. On all three shows, Hitchens also revived his claim that then-Defense Secretary Les Aspin was a strong proponent of U.S. intervention in Bosnia but was thwarted by Hillary Clinton. In his Slate article, as purported further support for his claim that Hillary Clinton blocked action in Bosnia to protect her domestic priority, Hitchens cited an exchange he said he had with Aspin that does not, in fact, prove his broader claim about Hillary Clinton. Moreover, in her book, On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency (Simon & Schuster, 1994), author Elizabeth Drew, a former Washington correspondent with The New Yorker, writes that, contrary to media reports at the time, Aspin was not a proponent of U.S. intervention in Bosnia. In his Slate article, Hitchens quoted at length from Bedell Smith's book, which includes numerous other errors and flaws, to advance the claim that Hillary Clinton deterred President Clinton from intervening in Bosnia because it would "distract attention from the first lady's health care 'initiative.' " However, neither the quote Hitchens cited from Bedell Smith -- nor the Newsweek article that she referenced -- supports Hitchens' claims. In For Love of Politics, Bedell Smith wrote: Taking the advice of [then-Vice President] Al Gore and National Security Advisor Tony Lake, Bill agreed to a proposal to bomb Serbian military positions while helping the Muslims acquire weapons to defend themselves -- the fulfillment of a pledge he had made during the 1992 campaign. But instead of pushing European leaders to sign on, he directed Secretary of State Warren Christopher merely to consult with them. When they balked at the plan, Bill quickly retreated, creating a "perception of drift." The key factor in Bill's policy reversal was Hillary, who was said to have "deep misgivings," and viewed the situation as "a Vietnam that would compromise health-care reform." The United States took no further action in Bosnia, and the "ethnic cleansing" by the Serbs was to continue for two more years, resulting in the deaths of more than 250,000 people. In asserting that Hillary Clinton "was said to have 'deep misgivings,' and viewed the situation as 'a Vietnam that would compromise health-care reform,' " Bedell Smith did not purport to quote Hillary Clinton directly and did not assert that she directed her husband to do or not do anything with respect to Bosnia, as Hitchens has repeatedly claimed. Moreover, Bedell Smith cites a 1993 Newsweek article by Tom Post for her claim that Hillary Clinton "was said to have 'deep misgivings,' and viewed the situation as 'a Vietnam that would compromise health-care reform.' " But Post did not report that as fact; rather, in the article Bedell Smith cited, he reported that sources gave differing accounts of the influences on Bill Clinton's Bosnia policy, providing one point of view offered by adviser Mandy Grunwald, but then citing "other sources" saying that Hillary Clinton had "deep misgivings" about Bosnia, and quoting a "friend" saying: "She regards this as a Vietnam that would compromise health-care reform." Moreover, the Newsweek article does not support Bedell Smith's flat assertion that Hillary was "[t]he key factor in Bill's policy reversal" on Bosnia, and Bedell Smith provides no other support for the assertion. From the Newsweek article: By the time Christopher returned to Washington, the mood was grim. His aides had warned him of a weakening of resolve in the White House. Could it be that political consultants had gotten to the president and warned him to back off Bosnia? "We don't mess around with foreign-policy decisions," insists Mandy Grunwald, an informal adviser. "Nobody is saying, 'You've got an economic program to worry about, don't do this'." But other sources say the most important adviser of all-Hillary Rodham Clinton-has deep misgivings. "She regards this as a Vietnam that would compromise health-care reform," says a friend. After quoting from Bedell Smith's book, Hitchens wrote in his Slate article: I can personally witness to the truth of this, too. I can remember, first, one of the Clintons' closest personal advisers -- Sidney Blumenthal -- referring with acid contempt to Warren Christopher as "a blend of Pontius Pilate with Ichabod Crane." I can remember, second, a meeting with Clinton's then-Secretary of Defense Les Aspin at the British Embassy. When I challenged him on the sellout of the Bosnians, he drew me aside and told me that he had asked the White House for permission to land his own plane at Sarajevo airport, if only as a gesture of reassurance that the United States had not forgotten its commitments. The response from the happy couple was unambiguous: He was to do no such thing, lest it distract attention from the first lady's health care "initiative." Hitchens did not explain how the anecdote he attributes to Aspin about being told not to land his plane in Sarajevo "lest it distract attention from the first lady's health care 'initiative' " proves the truth of Bedell Smith's claim that it was Hillary's purported "misgivings" that served as "[t]he key factor" in the delay of U.S. intervention in Bosnia. Moreover, in his three television appearances on November 17, 18, and 19, Hitchens presented Aspin as a strong proponent of U.S. intervention in Bosnia, up against Hillary Clinton. For example, on November 18, Hitchens said: HITCHENS: We all remember, or we should, that when Les Aspin had then got the Clinton administration very nearly to do something about the horror in the Balkans that belatedly the Clinton administration did decide to stop -- the Clinton-Gore administration -- they delayed it because Hillary said, "No, no, don't do it, it will take away attention from my brilliant, wonderful health care program" that we all remember so well. But in her book, Drew reported the opposite -- that Aspin "was for doing as little as possible in Bosnia." From Drew's book: Contrary to many published reports at the time, Aspin (who was said to favor bombing) was for doing as little as possible in Bosnia. He thought it was "a loser from the start," that there was no way to deal with the problem effectively without enormous military force, and that neither the United States nor Europe was willing to pay that price. He argued that the best they could end up with was a divided Bosnia -- Serb, Croat, and Muslim -- with the Serbs maintaining control over most of the land they had already won in the war. When the question of bombing Bosnian Serb artillery sites arose in the spring of 1993, Aspin favored a cease-fire in place. [Page 142] From the November 17 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews: CHRIS MATTHEWS (host): Well, I probably disagree with Hitchens on this, but I am very suspicious when [Sen.] Jon Kyl [R-AZ], a major supporter of the war in Iraq, a complete hawk, a neocon in many ways, complete hawk, supports her for this. Henry Kissinger's come out of the woodwork. He supports her for this. HITCHENS: Yes. MATTHEWS: Why do these establishment conservatives want her? What are they up to? Why do they want her? I don't know what they want. HITCHENS: Don't compare Kissinger -- don't compare Kissinger to Kyl. I mean, Kissinger is a critic of the war and a so-called realist, and someone who likes leaving dictators like Saddam Hussein in place -- MATTHEWS: Well, why do they both want her? They're both Republicans. Why do they want her? HITCHENS: Because she's a status-quo type, and they know they can, so to speak, trust her. She's a member of their club. Just to comment on what Peter said a moment ago: If you remember -- and I'll drag you back to this Bosnia farce that she inflicted on us during the campaign. Actually, when there was pressure on the Clinton administration -- Les Aspin was secretary of defense, you remember -- to do something about Sarajevo, to stop the killing, to prevent the ethnic cleansing, Hillary Clinton moved in hard on her husband and said, "Don't you do a thing about Bosnia. It'll spoil my wonderful health-care plan, which should be front and center." And remember how beautifully that worked out, too. PETER BEINART (The New Republic editor-at-large and Time contributor): I'm not sure I think that's an entirely accurate accounting of -- HITCHENS: Yes, it is. BEINART: -- her role in Bosnia. And the reality is that the Clintons, albeit very late, the Clinton administration acted very well -- MATTHEWS: OK. BEINART: -- in Bosnia in 1995. HITCHENS: Over her objections. MATTHEWS: OK. BEINART: I'm not sure it was over her objections. HITCHENS: Yes, it was. From the November 18 edition of MSNBC's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with David Gregory: GREGORY: And what's the impact on a Secretary of State Clinton because of those associations? Can they not put up a firewall between them? HITCHENS: Well, as I say, if it hadn't involved her, too, the campaign finance scandals -- we're not talking about the ongoing stuff -- Mr. Clinton's huge speaking fees in the Gulf and elsewhere -- we're talking about previous convictions in the Clinton fundraising scandal. If it wasn't for the fact that she couldn't refuse her brothers everything -- or sorry, anything -- couldn't refuse them anything; anything they wanted they seem to have got, including some kind of deal for Marc Rich -- all of this might be forgivable or it might assume a different proportion, David, if it wasn't for the fact that this woman doesn't really have any foreign policy experience worth mentioning. And what is memorable about it is pretty bad. We all remember, or we should, that when Les Aspin had then got the Clinton administration very nearly to do something about the horror in the Balkans that belatedly the Clinton administration did decide to stop -- the Clinton-Gore administration -- they delayed it because Hillary said, "No, no, don't do it, it will take away attention from my brilliant, wonderful health care program" that we all remember so well. At least on health care, she knows enough about the subject to have really changed American health care for the worse in her time. But foreign policy, she -- GREGORY: And yet -- HITCHENS: About foreign policy, she doesn't even know that much. From the November 19 edition of CNN's Larry King Live: LARRY KING (host): Christopher, if she takes the job, does that end her presidential ambitions? HITCHENS: No. I mean, I actually agree with what Tom Friedman said. It must be very nerve-racking if you're a president to have a secretary of state who you know is thinking about four years ahead or maybe eight all the time. She never thinks about anything else, never has thought about anything else, except the possibility that she might one day be president of the United States. Wasn't even a team player in her own husband's administration. Remember, when Les Aspin wanted to do something finally about Sarajevo and the rape of Bosnia, Hillary Clinton said, "No, I don't want you intervening. You'll get in the way of my health-care plan," which you remember worked out so brilliantly. Someone who simply cannot think about anything but her own ego, or sometimes, her husband's, but who -- if Barack Obama does this to himself, he'll never have a minute's peace in foreign policy -- KING: Paul [Begala] -- HITCHENS: -- and neither will we. And every lobbyist and foreign policy interest group from China to Indonesia will be laughing -- KING: Paul, what do you make of that? HITCHENS: -- because they've got exactly the person they know listens to them. Mediamatters.Org In disparaging possible sec. of state appointment for Clinton, on MSNBC and CNN, Hitchens offered purported 15-year-old quote he has yet to source {new window}   Mediamatters.Org - Contemplating the possible nomination of Sen. Hillary Clinton to be secretary of state, commentator and author Christopher Hitchens, a frequent and harsh Clinton critic, revived the unsubstantiated claim that Hillary Clinton blocked any action by the Clinton administration in war-torn Bosnia in 1993 because she didn't want it to interfere with passage of her health-care plan. In reviving the claim on MSNBC's Hardball, MSNBC's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and CNN's Larry King Live between November 17 and November 19, Hitchens purported to quote Hillary Clinton demanding of Bill Clinton that he not intervene in Bosnia, lest, in Hitchens' words on the November 17 Hardball, it "spoil my wonderful health-care plan, which should be front and center." In a March 31 article for Slate.com, Hitchens cited Sally Bedell Smith's For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years for the claim that Hillary Clinton blocked Clinton administration intervention in Bosnia, but the book does not support Hitchens' claim; it does not mention Hitchens' purported quote or otherwise assert that Hillary Clinton directed Bill Clinton not to take action in Bosnia. On all three shows, Hitchens also revived his claim that then-Defense Secretary Les Aspin was a strong proponent of U.S. intervention in Bosnia but was thwarted by Hillary Clinton. In his Slate article, as purported further support for his claim that Hillary Clinton blocked action in Bosnia to protect her domestic priority, Hitchens cited an exchange he said he had with Aspin that does not, in fact, prove his broader claim about Hillary Clinton. Moreover, in her book, On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency (Simon & Schuster, 1994), author Elizabeth Drew, a former Washington correspondent with The New Yorker, writes that, contrary to media reports at the time, Aspin was not a proponent of U.S. intervention in Bosnia. In his Slate article, Hitchens quoted at length from Bedell Smith's book, which includes numerous other errors and flaws, to advance the claim that Hillary Clinton deterred President Clinton from intervening in Bosnia because it would "distract attention from the first lady's health care 'initiative.' " However, neither the quote Hitchens cited from Bedell Smith -- nor the Newsweek article that she referenced -- supports Hitchens' claims. In For Love of Politics, Bedell Smith wrote: Taking the advice of [then-Vice President] Al Gore and National Security Advisor Tony Lake, Bill agreed to a proposal to bomb Serbian military positions while helping the Muslims acquire weapons to defend themselves -- the fulfillment of a pledge he had made during the 1992 campaign. But instead of pushing European leaders to sign on, he directed Secretary of State Warren Christopher merely to consult with them. When they balked at the plan, Bill quickly retreated, creating a "perception of drift." The key factor in Bill's policy reversal was Hillary, who was said to have "deep misgivings," and viewed the situation as "a Vietnam that would compromise health-care reform." The United States took no further action in Bosnia, and the "ethnic cleansing" by the Serbs was to continue for two more years, resulting in the deaths of more than 250,000 people. In asserting that Hillary Clinton "was said to have 'deep misgivings,' and viewed the situation as 'a Vietnam that would compromise health-care reform,' " Bedell Smith did not purport to quote Hillary Clinton directly and did not assert that she directed her husband to do or not do anything with respect to Bosnia, as Hitchens has repeatedly claimed. Moreover, Bedell Smith cites a 1993 Newsweek article by Tom Post for her claim that Hillary Clinton "was said to have 'deep misgivings,' and viewed the situation as 'a Vietnam that would compromise health-care reform.' " But Post did not report that as fact; rather, in the article Bedell Smith cited, he reported that sources gave differing accounts of the influences on Bill Clinton's Bosnia policy, providing one point of view offered by adviser Mandy Grunwald, but then citing "other sources" saying that Hillary Clinton had "deep misgivings" about Bosnia, and quoting a "friend" saying: "She regards this as a Vietnam that would compromise health-care reform." Moreover, the Newsweek article does not support Bedell Smith's flat assertion that Hillary was "[t]he key factor in Bill's policy reversal" on Bosnia, and Bedell Smith provides no other support for the assertion. From the Newsweek article: By the time Christopher returned to Washington, the mood was grim. His aides had warned him of a weakening of resolve in the White House. Could it be that political consultants had gotten to the president and warned him to back off Bosnia? "We don't mess around with foreign-policy decisions," insists Mandy Grunwald, an informal adviser. "Nobody is saying, 'You've got an economic program to worry about, don't do this'." But other sources say the most important adviser of all-Hillary Rodham Clinton-has deep misgivings. "She regards this as a Vietnam that would compromise health-care reform," says a friend. After quoting from Bedell Smith's book, Hitchens wrote in his Slate article: I can personally witness to the truth of this, too. I can remember, first, one of the Clintons' closest personal advisers -- Sidney Blumenthal -- referring with acid contempt to Warren Christopher as "a blend of Pontius Pilate with Ichabod Crane." I can remember, second, a meeting with Clinton's then-Secretary of Defense Les Aspin at the British Embassy. When I challenged him on the sellout of the Bosnians, he drew me aside and told me that he had asked the White House for permission to land his own plane at Sarajevo airport, if only as a gesture of reassurance that the United States had not forgotten its commitments. The response from the happy couple was unambiguous: He was to do no such thing, lest it distract attention from the first lady's health care "initiative." Hitchens did not explain how the anecdote he attributes to Aspin about being told not to land his plane in Sarajevo "lest it distract attention from the first lady's health care 'initiative' " proves the truth of Bedell Smith's claim that it was Hillary's purported "misgivings" that served as "[t]he key factor" in the delay of U.S. intervention in Bosnia. Moreover, in his three television appearances on November 17, 18, and 19, Hitchens presented Aspin as a strong proponent of U.S. intervention in Bosnia, up against Hillary Clinton. For example, on November 18, Hitchens said: HITCHENS: We all remember, or we should, that when Les Aspin had then got the Clinton administration very nearly to do something about the horror in the Balkans that belatedly the Clinton administration did decide to stop -- the Clinton-Gore administration -- they delayed it because Hillary said, "No, no, don't do it, it will take away attention from my brilliant, wonderful health care program" that we all remember so well. But in her book, Drew reported the opposite -- that Aspin "was for doing as little as possible in Bosnia." From Drew's book: Contrary to many published reports at the time, Aspin (who was said to favor bombing) was for doing as little as possible in Bosnia. He thought it was "a loser from the start," that there was no way to deal with the problem effectively without enormous military force, and that neither the United States nor Europe was willing to pay that price. He argued that the best they could end up with was a divided Bosnia -- Serb, Croat, and Muslim -- with the Serbs maintaining control over most of the land they had already won in the war. When the question of bombing Bosnian Serb artillery sites arose in the spring of 1993, Aspin favored a cease-fire in place. [Page 142] From the November 17 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews: CHRIS MATTHEWS (host): Well, I probably disagree with Hitchens on this, but I am very suspicious when [Sen.] Jon Kyl [R-AZ], a major supporter of the war in Iraq, a complete hawk, a neocon in many ways, complete hawk, supports her for this. Henry Kissinger's come out of the woodwork. He supports her for this. HITCHENS: Yes. MATTHEWS: Why do these establishment conservatives want her? What are they up to? Why do they want her? I don't know what they want. HITCHENS: Don't compare Kissinger -- don't compare Kissinger to Kyl. I mean, Kissinger is a critic of the war and a so-called realist, and someone who likes leaving dictators like Saddam Hussein in place -- MATTHEWS: Well, why do they both want her? They're both Republicans. Why do they want her? HITCHENS: Because she's a status-quo type, and they know they can, so to speak, trust her. She's a member of their club. Just to comment on what Peter said a moment ago: If you remember -- and I'll drag you back to this Bosnia farce that she inflicted on us during the campaign. Actually, when there was pressure on the Clinton administration -- Les Aspin was secretary of defense, you remember -- to do something about Sarajevo, to stop the killing, to prevent the ethnic cleansing, Hillary Clinton moved in hard on her husband and said, "Don't you do a thing about Bosnia. It'll spoil my wonderful health-care plan, which should be front and center." And remember how beautifully that worked out, too. PETER BEINART (The New Republic editor-at-large and Time contributor): I'm not sure I think that's an entirely accurate accounting of -- HITCHENS: Yes, it is. BEINART: -- her role in Bosnia. And the reality is that the Clintons, albeit very late, the Clinton administration acted very well -- MATTHEWS: OK. BEINART: -- in Bosnia in 1995. HITCHENS: Over her objections. MATTHEWS: OK. BEINART: I'm not sure it was over her objections. HITCHENS: Yes, it was. From the November 18 edition of MSNBC's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with David Gregory: GREGORY: And what's the impact on a Secretary of State Clinton because of those associations? Can they not put up a firewall between them? HITCHENS: Well, as I say, if it hadn't involved her, too, the campaign finance scandals -- we're not talking about the ongoing stuff -- Mr. Clinton's huge speaking fees in the Gulf and elsewhere -- we're talking about previous convictions in the Clinton fundraising scandal. If it wasn't for the fact that she couldn't refuse her brothers everything -- or sorry, anything -- couldn't refuse them anything; anything they wanted they seem to have got, including some kind of deal for Marc Rich -- all of this might be forgivable or it might assume a different proportion, David, if it wasn't for the fact that this woman doesn't really have any foreign policy experience worth mentioning. And what is memorable about it is pretty bad. We all remember, or we should, that when Les Aspin had then got the Clinton administration very nearly to do something about the horror in the Balkans that belatedly the Clinton administration did decide to stop -- the Clinton-Gore administration -- they delayed it because Hillary said, "No, no, don't do it, it will take away attention from my brilliant, wonderful health care program" that we all remember so well. At least on health care, she knows enough about the subject to have really changed American health care for the worse in her time. But foreign policy, she -- GREGORY: And yet -- HITCHENS: About foreign policy, she doesn't even know that much. From the November 19 edition of CNN's Larry King Live: LARRY KING (host): Christopher, if she takes the job, does that end her presidential ambitions? HITCHENS: No. I mean, I actually agree with what Tom Friedman said. It must be very nerve-racking if you're a president to have a secretary of state who you know is thinking about four years ahead or maybe eight all the time. She never thinks about anything else, never has thought about anything else, except the possibility that she might one day be president of the United States. Wasn't even a team player in her own husband's administration. Remember, when Les Aspin wanted to do something finally about Sarajevo and the rape of Bosnia, Hillary Clinton said, "No, I don't want you intervening. You'll get in the way of my health-care plan," which you remember worked out so brilliantly. Someone who simply cannot think about anything but her own ego, or sometimes, her husband's, but who -- if Barack Obama does this to himself, he'll never have a minute's peace in foreign policy -- KING: Paul [Begala] -- HITCHENS: -- and neither will we. And every lobbyist and foreign policy interest group from China to Indonesia will be laughing -- KING: Paul, what do you make of that? HITCHENS: -- because they've got exactly the person they know listens to them.
Media Matters - In disparaging possible sec. of state appointment for Clinton, on MSNBC and CNN, Hitchens offered purported 15-year-old quote he has yet to source {...} Criticizing Sen. Hillary Clinton over her possible appointment as secretary of state, in three separate appearances, Christopher Hitchens purported to quote Clinton from 15 years ago to attack her foreign policy credentials. On MSNBC and CNN, from November 17-19, Hitchens claimed that Clinton directed her husband in 1993 not to intervene in the Balkans because it would detract attention from her health-care program. But the source he has previously cited for the assertion does not support it. {...}
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]]> Society > Issues > Business > Media > Bias and Balance {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Jason Solomons takes a look at the films that are rejuvenating French cinema http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/jason-solomons-takes-a-look-at-the-films-that-are-20081174326.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/jason-solomons-takes-a-look-at-the-films-that-are-20081174326.htm Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:03:35 GMT When director Laurent Cantet accepted the Palme d'Or at Cannes last May, he took to the stage surrounded by a large cast of children. African, Caribbean, white, Arab, Chinese - these French faces were the young stars of his film Entre les murs (The Class). It was a stirring, televised spectacle for the host nation - not only was it the first time in 21 years that a French film had picked up cinema's most prestigious trophy but it was a film about youth, hope and multi-culturalism that had achieved it.The Class is a magnificent film tracing a state school year in the lively, racially mixed classroom of one teacher, François Bégaudeau. A winning blend of documentary style and improvised drama, the film reflects the changing nature of French society in microcosm, using these 14-year-old Parisian kids' identities and personalities to touch on themes of race, postcolonialism, language and law. Cantet's film is not typical of traditional French cinema, but does its success at Cannes mean that, finally, France's film-makers are opening up to the possibilities of reflecting the new world around them?Perhaps the cosy, traditional French bourgeois drama is becoming a thing of the past. Such films have tended to fall into two categories: the country house affair, with large family gatherings on sun-filled terraces; or the urbane Parisian comedy, packed with bistro meetings, girls in summer dresses, chic women in Chanel suits, fabulous apartments overlooking the Seine and strolls in the Jardin du Luxembourg.Perhaps the optimism inspired by France's victory in the football World Cup that it hosted in 1998, when the 'rainbow nation' team of Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry and Youri Djorkaeff paraded along the Champs-Elysées, has now filtered into French culture. 'All I know is that this film struck a chord with this particular jury at Cannes in this particular year,' says Cantet. 'I greatly enjoyed making the film and spending a year with these wonderful young people, so, personally, I think there is great cause for hope in the future of our country and it is encouraging to see that hope reflected in French cinema.'These are heady times for French film, which seems finally to have found a new voice after many years spent emerging from the long shadows of the Nouvelle Vague and battling the influence of Hollywood. French films are taking centre stage around the world and the names of French directors are once again rolling off the tongues of cinephiles: Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, Olivier Assayas, Agnès Jaoui. Is this the start of a new New Wave?This group of directors is disparate but certainly brings a new edge to French film. Cantet has been building a distinctive career with socially aware films such as Human Resources and Time Out, films about men caught in suffocating systems and workplaces. Kechiche, born in Tunisia, has also - in films such as L'esquive (The Dodge) and last year's César-winning Couscous - concentrated on a social realism more in tune with the films of Britain's Ken Loach than anything in the French tradition. The films of Assayas, a former film critic, range widely, from twentysomething Parisian bourgeois angst in Fin août, début septembre, to a spin on period drama among a porcelain-producing family in Les destinées sentimentales, to doom-laden global futurism in Demonlover.'We're not a family, that's for sure,' says Agnès Jaoui, the writer, director and actress whose new film, Let's Talk About the Rain, is now playing in UK cinemas. Jaoui - known for polished ensemble comedies such as the Cannes-winning Comme une image (Look at Me) and The Taste of Others - was brought up by poor immigrant Tunisian Jewish parents in Paris. 'I don't feel that we're part of a new school or fashion or movement. But, yes, we are, we must be, united by something - the fact that, somehow, 15 years or so ago, French cinema survived.'Jaoui is referring to 'la loi Toubon', the law introduced in 1994 by culture minister Jacques Toubon which protected French language and production. Two out of every five songs on the radio, for example, must be in French. The laws on film production led to tax breaks and levies pouring money into French productions and keeping French films playing in multiplexes.According to Jaoui, all European countries would benefit from such laws. 'French cinema was nearly destroyed by the weight of its own history and by the power of Hollywood on its young people,' she says. 'Maybe even film-makers were against these laws at first, but now I would say that, among us all in the current generation, there is a general feeling, a mood, of survival and of diversity.'In France, 2008 has been a landmark year. Not only did The Class win the Palme d'Or but Marion Cotillard won a Best Actress Oscar - the first French language performance ever to do so, propelling her film, La Vie en Rose, to impressive international box-office figures (£1m in the UK). France also produced its most successful film ever in Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (Welcome to the Sticks), a culture-clash comedy based in small-town northern France, which brought 20 million French people into cinemas, grossing more than $200m and, so far, racking up more than two million DVD sales. No film, French or American, has been more popular.In the UK, French film dominates the foreign language releases. The number of French films in 2008 stands at 42, with receipts expected to be above £15m. According to Unifrance, which promotes French film abroad, the number of tickets sold in the UK for French films in the past three years has increased fivefold.What we are seeing, in other words, is a new wave of commercialism in French cinema. Rather than wowing the world - as the New Wave did with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard's À bout de souffle or Truffaut's Les quatre cents coups - with a new style or a new film grammar, France has positioned itself as a powerhouse of production, cultivating a domestic scene that also feeds international reputation and demand. For instance, it is not seen as a commercial risk to have French actor Mathieu Amalric as the latest Bond villain.French cinema is using this new internationalism wisely. Guillaume Canet, for instance, is perhaps best known for starring with Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach. But he is also the young director behind Tell No One, a stylish thriller that enjoyed a long run in British cinemas last year and is now enjoying cult success in New York and Los Angeles. You would not call it traditional 'arthouse', but it does trade on being more upmarket simply because it's in a foreign language. It also depicts a grittier, urban France, which is also reflected in one of the most anticipated French films, Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One, an epic, two-part crime saga starring Vincent Cassel as one of France's most notorious gangsters. This year's current stylish French mystery - complete with bluesy guitar slides reminiscent of Tell No One - is I've Loved You So Long, which looks likely to earn several awards nominations for its leading lady, Kristin Scott Thomas, who also appeared in Tell No One, and is, of course, familiar around the world.The global reach of French cinema is both a blessing and a curse, according to a veteran observer of such things. Agnès Varda, often labelled the 'grandmother of the New Wave', is now 80 but has just completed a beguiling personal film called Les plages d'Agnès. 'Nowadays, French cinema has to be international to survive. There is so much competition, so much pressure. Now you have films from a dozen other countries. We never had that. Our only competition used to be from the Italians.'Varda thinks highly of Abdellatif Kechiche whose La graine et le mulet (Couscous) is a wonderful film which follows an elderly Arab immigrant, Slimane, as he tries to build his dream: a fish couscous restaurant on a disused boat in the town of Sète, near Marseille. Again, like Cantet, using improvisation and documentary techniques in a realist tradition, Kechiche's masterly work brought to the fore a cast of characters - mostly Arab in origin - ignored by French cinema for too long. An unexpected commercial success at the French box office, Couscous introduced the actress Hafsia Herzi and she is now on her way to becoming French cinema's first female Arab superstar.France's leading Arab film star is Jamel Debbouze, who first became known through TV comedy but who has now moved to the big screen in films such as the Asterix adaptations starring Gérard Depardieu, Amélie opposite Audrey Tatou and, most significantly, the fine revisionist Second World War drama Days of Glory, directed by Algerian-born Rachid Bouchareb, about the contribution of African troops in liberating France from the Nazis. Debbouze is now starring in Let's Talk About the Rain. 'Jamel is a phenomenon in France, not just a star,' says Jaoui. 'But would you believe we still got some sniping in the press, that we were seeking bigger audiences by working with Jamel, that we were somehow dumbing down our usual ensemble to include him. That's just rubbish, but it shows how hard it still is to change things around in France.'Even more traditional French films have been given a twist. It's interesting to note that idiosyncratic director Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale and Olivier Assayas's recent hit, Summer Hours, starring Juliette Binoche, are both about old French families coming to terms with the death of their matriarch and the divvying up of the family home. Let's Talk About the Rain has similar themes. All three films show a big French family shaken up by modern life, with its taxes, globalism and multiculturalism. For Assayas, a return to making bourgeois drama was, ironically, the route for him to say more about the future of French culture. In the film, family members (including Binoche, Jérémie Renier, Charles Berling) meet to discuss what to do with the valuable art collection left in their family summer house after the death of their mother (Edith Scob), once the lover of a great artist. The film borrowed many fabulous artworks from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.'I was surprised how easily this kind of bourgeois story was the canvas for talking about issues that obsess me,' says Assayas. 'Namely, how to respect the past yet also to embrace the future and appreciate its styles, fashions and ideas as much as what came before. I was surprised, too, by how popular this type of story still is with audiences, particularly abroad.'It's interesting that this generation of film-makers see themselves as reacting to the New Wave. 'The films of Godard and Truffaut are fine,' says Jaoui, 'but I think it took the new generation so long to come out of the shadow of the Nouvelle Vague that they did as much harm as good. You know, the Cahiers du Cinéma [France's leading intellectual film magazine] and the critics, that sort of snobisme held back film-makers for too long - it made us scared, lacking in experimentation to find our own voice to say: this is who we are, this is how we want our films to sound, to look, to be about.'I'm French but I'm the child of Tunisian parents, so I don't know if I would call my film French in any typical way. What is that now? Is it sophisticated comedy or realist social drama or big budget action? What we see now is very talented film-makers realising, hey, we're all still here, we're all alive, so let's just make the films we can and enjoy it. If that's a movement, then that's what we're all part of.' ? The Class opens in FebruaryWhat do you think? Email us at review@observer.co.ukNew classics: Cinq to see Irreversible (2002) Violent stunner from Argentinian-born director Gaspar Noé, a long, dark Paris nightmare about Vincent Cassel seeking revenge for the rape of his lover, Monica Bellucci. Prompted walk-outs and fainting at Cannes.The Beat My Heart Skipped (2005) Career-making performance by actor Romain Duris in Jacques Audiard's urban thriller about a property repo-man among immigrant squatters who really wants to be a concert pianist. Hidden (2005) Directed by Austrian Michael Haneke, Hidden gripped audiences with its unsettling mystery about a couple (Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche) sent incriminating video tapes - a brilliant film about post-colonial bourgeois guilt and the first to mention a police massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris in 1961.La Vie en Rose (2007) Olivier Dahan's biopic of Edith Piaf earned Marion Cotillard the first-ever best actress Oscar for a French language performance. Controversially skated over the Nazi occupation of Paris, and Piaf's performances for German officers.Couscous (2007) Released in France as La graine et le mulet, it was the surprise winner of four Césars earlier this year. The long family Sunday lunch is one of the great food scenes in film.World cinemaguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Guardian.Co.Uk Jason Solomons takes a look at the films that are rejuvenating French cinema {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - When director Laurent Cantet accepted the Palme d'Or at Cannes last May, he took to the stage surrounded by a large cast of children. African, Caribbean, white, Arab, Chinese - these French faces were the young stars of his film Entre les murs (The Class). It was a stirring, televised spectacle for the host nation - not only was it the first time in 21 years that a French film had picked up cinema's most prestigious trophy but it was a film about youth, hope and multi-culturalism that had achieved it.The Class is a magnificent film tracing a state school year in the lively, racially mixed classroom of one teacher, François Bégaudeau. A winning blend of documentary style and improvised drama, the film reflects the changing nature of French society in microcosm, using these 14-year-old Parisian kids' identities and personalities to touch on themes of race, postcolonialism, language and law. Cantet's film is not typical of traditional French cinema, but does its success at Cannes mean that, finally, France's film-makers are opening up to the possibilities of reflecting the new world around them?Perhaps the cosy, traditional French bourgeois drama is becoming a thing of the past. Such films have tended to fall into two categories: the country house affair, with large family gatherings on sun-filled terraces; or the urbane Parisian comedy, packed with bistro meetings, girls in summer dresses, chic women in Chanel suits, fabulous apartments overlooking the Seine and strolls in the Jardin du Luxembourg.Perhaps the optimism inspired by France's victory in the football World Cup that it hosted in 1998, when the 'rainbow nation' team of Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry and Youri Djorkaeff paraded along the Champs-Elysées, has now filtered into French culture. 'All I know is that this film struck a chord with this particular jury at Cannes in this particular year,' says Cantet. 'I greatly enjoyed making the film and spending a year with these wonderful young people, so, personally, I think there is great cause for hope in the future of our country and it is encouraging to see that hope reflected in French cinema.'These are heady times for French film, which seems finally to have found a new voice after many years spent emerging from the long shadows of the Nouvelle Vague and battling the influence of Hollywood. French films are taking centre stage around the world and the names of French directors are once again rolling off the tongues of cinephiles: Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, Olivier Assayas, Agnès Jaoui. Is this the start of a new New Wave?This group of directors is disparate but certainly brings a new edge to French film. Cantet has been building a distinctive career with socially aware films such as Human Resources and Time Out, films about men caught in suffocating systems and workplaces. Kechiche, born in Tunisia, has also - in films such as L'esquive (The Dodge) and last year's César-winning Couscous - concentrated on a social realism more in tune with the films of Britain's Ken Loach than anything in the French tradition. The films of Assayas, a former film critic, range widely, from twentysomething Parisian bourgeois angst in Fin août, début septembre, to a spin on period drama among a porcelain-producing family in Les destinées sentimentales, to doom-laden global futurism in Demonlover.'We're not a family, that's for sure,' says Agnès Jaoui, the writer, director and actress whose new film, Let's Talk About the Rain, is now playing in UK cinemas. Jaoui - known for polished ensemble comedies such as the Cannes-winning Comme une image (Look at Me) and The Taste of Others - was brought up by poor immigrant Tunisian Jewish parents in Paris. 'I don't feel that we're part of a new school or fashion or movement. But, yes, we are, we must be, united by something - the fact that, somehow, 15 years or so ago, French cinema survived.'Jaoui is referring to 'la loi Toubon', the law introduced in 1994 by culture minister Jacques Toubon which protected French language and production. Two out of every five songs on the radio, for example, must be in French. The laws on film production led to tax breaks and levies pouring money into French productions and keeping French films playing in multiplexes.According to Jaoui, all European countries would benefit from such laws. 'French cinema was nearly destroyed by the weight of its own history and by the power of Hollywood on its young people,' she says. 'Maybe even film-makers were against these laws at first, but now I would say that, among us all in the current generation, there is a general feeling, a mood, of survival and of diversity.'In France, 2008 has been a landmark year. Not only did The Class win the Palme d'Or but Marion Cotillard won a Best Actress Oscar - the first French language performance ever to do so, propelling her film, La Vie en Rose, to impressive international box-office figures (£1m in the UK). France also produced its most successful film ever in Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (Welcome to the Sticks), a culture-clash comedy based in small-town northern France, which brought 20 million French people into cinemas, grossing more than $200m and, so far, racking up more than two million DVD sales. No film, French or American, has been more popular.In the UK, French film dominates the foreign language releases. The number of French films in 2008 stands at 42, with receipts expected to be above £15m. According to Unifrance, which promotes French film abroad, the number of tickets sold in the UK for French films in the past three years has increased fivefold.What we are seeing, in other words, is a new wave of commercialism in French cinema. Rather than wowing the world - as the New Wave did with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard's À bout de souffle or Truffaut's Les quatre cents coups - with a new style or a new film grammar, France has positioned itself as a powerhouse of production, cultivating a domestic scene that also feeds international reputation and demand. For instance, it is not seen as a commercial risk to have French actor Mathieu Amalric as the latest Bond villain.French cinema is using this new internationalism wisely. Guillaume Canet, for instance, is perhaps best known for starring with Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach. But he is also the young director behind Tell No One, a stylish thriller that enjoyed a long run in British cinemas last year and is now enjoying cult success in New York and Los Angeles. You would not call it traditional 'arthouse', but it does trade on being more upmarket simply because it's in a foreign language. It also depicts a grittier, urban France, which is also reflected in one of the most anticipated French films, Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One, an epic, two-part crime saga starring Vincent Cassel as one of France's most notorious gangsters. This year's current stylish French mystery - complete with bluesy guitar slides reminiscent of Tell No One - is I've Loved You So Long, which looks likely to earn several awards nominations for its leading lady, Kristin Scott Thomas, who also appeared in Tell No One, and is, of course, familiar around the world.The global reach of French cinema is both a blessing and a curse, according to a veteran observer of such things. Agnès Varda, often labelled the 'grandmother of the New Wave', is now 80 but has just completed a beguiling personal film called Les plages d'Agnès. 'Nowadays, French cinema has to be international to survive. There is so much competition, so much pressure. Now you have films from a dozen other countries. We never had that. Our only competition used to be from the Italians.'Varda thinks highly of Abdellatif Kechiche whose La graine et le mulet (Couscous) is a wonderful film which follows an elderly Arab immigrant, Slimane, as he tries to build his dream: a fish couscous restaurant on a disused boat in the town of Sète, near Marseille. Again, like Cantet, using improvisation and documentary techniques in a realist tradition, Kechiche's masterly work brought to the fore a cast of characters - mostly Arab in origin - ignored by French cinema for too long. An unexpected commercial success at the French box office, Couscous introduced the actress Hafsia Herzi and she is now on her way to becoming French cinema's first female Arab superstar.France's leading Arab film star is Jamel Debbouze, who first became known through TV comedy but who has now moved to the big screen in films such as the Asterix adaptations starring Gérard Depardieu, Amélie opposite Audrey Tatou and, most significantly, the fine revisionist Second World War drama Days of Glory, directed by Algerian-born Rachid Bouchareb, about the contribution of African troops in liberating France from the Nazis. Debbouze is now starring in Let's Talk About the Rain. 'Jamel is a phenomenon in France, not just a star,' says Jaoui. 'But would you believe we still got some sniping in the press, that we were seeking bigger audiences by working with Jamel, that we were somehow dumbing down our usual ensemble to include him. That's just rubbish, but it shows how hard it still is to change things around in France.'Even more traditional French films have been given a twist. It's interesting to note that idiosyncratic director Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale and Olivier Assayas's recent hit, Summer Hours, starring Juliette Binoche, are both about old French families coming to terms with the death of their matriarch and the divvying up of the family home. Let's Talk About the Rain has similar themes. All three films show a big French family shaken up by modern life, with its taxes, globalism and multiculturalism. For Assayas, a return to making bourgeois drama was, ironically, the route for him to say more about the future of French culture. In the film, family members (including Binoche, Jérémie Renier, Charles Berling) meet to discuss what to do with the valuable art collection left in their family summer house after the death of their mother (Edith Scob), once the lover of a great artist. The film borrowed many fabulous artworks from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.'I was surprised how easily this kind of bourgeois story was the canvas for talking about issues that obsess me,' says Assayas. 'Namely, how to respect the past yet also to embrace the future and appreciate its styles, fashions and ideas as much as what came before. I was surprised, too, by how popular this type of story still is with audiences, particularly abroad.'It's interesting that this generation of film-makers see themselves as reacting to the New Wave. 'The films of Godard and Truffaut are fine,' says Jaoui, 'but I think it took the new generation so long to come out of the shadow of the Nouvelle Vague that they did as much harm as good. You know, the Cahiers du Cinéma [France's leading intellectual film magazine] and the critics, that sort of snobisme held back film-makers for too long - it made us scared, lacking in experimentation to find our own voice to say: this is who we are, this is how we want our films to sound, to look, to be about.'I'm French but I'm the child of Tunisian parents, so I don't know if I would call my film French in any typical way. What is that now? Is it sophisticated comedy or realist social drama or big budget action? What we see now is very talented film-makers realising, hey, we're all still here, we're all alive, so let's just make the films we can and enjoy it. If that's a movement, then that's what we're all part of.' ? The Class opens in FebruaryWhat do you think? Email us at review@observer.co.ukNew classics: Cinq to see Irreversible (2002) Violent stunner from Argentinian-born director Gaspar Noé, a long, dark Paris nightmare about Vincent Cassel seeking revenge for the rape of his lover, Monica Bellucci. Prompted walk-outs and fainting at Cannes.The Beat My Heart Skipped (2005) Career-making performance by actor Romain Duris in Jacques Audiard's urban thriller about a property repo-man among immigrant squatters who really wants to be a concert pianist. Hidden (2005) Directed by Austrian Michael Haneke, Hidden gripped audiences with its unsettling mystery about a couple (Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche) sent incriminating video tapes - a brilliant film about post-colonial bourgeois guilt and the first to mention a police massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris in 1961.La Vie en Rose (2007) Olivier Dahan's biopic of Edith Piaf earned Marion Cotillard the first-ever best actress Oscar for a French language performance. Controversially skated over the Nazi occupation of Paris, and Piaf's performances for German officers.Couscous (2007) Released in France as La graine et le mulet, it was the surprise winner of four Césars earlier this year. The long family Sunday lunch is one of the great food scenes in film.World cinemaguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Jason Solomons takes a look at the films that are rejuvenating French cinema | Film | The Observer {...} Jason Solomons takes a look at some gritty urban comedies and thrillers that are rejuvenating French cinema {...}
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {VIDEO GAMES > NEWS AND REVIEWS} - Histwar: Les Grognards Screens http://articles.world-of-newave.info/games/video-games/computer-platforms/news-and-reviews/histwar-les-grognards-screens-20081196317.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/games/video-games/computer-platforms/news-and-reviews/histwar-les-grognards-screens-20081196317.htm Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:06:01 GMT 39 new shots posted. Gamespot.Com Histwar: Les Grognards Screens {new window}   Www.Gamespot.Com - 39 new shots posted.
Histwar: Les Grognards Screens for PC at GameSpot {...} Histwar: Les Grognards for PC at GameSpot. Screens of Histwar: Les Grognards and hundreds of other games. {...}
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]]> Games > Video Games > Computer Platforms > News and Reviews {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - We Are Mutants http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/we-are-mutants-20081147220.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/we-are-mutants-20081147220.htm Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:14:53 GMT The lovely Google theme I use, NOUS, designed by Philippe Starck, described as "Vision, subversion, rébellion, humour, amour sont les seuls paramètres structurellement modernes," with colorful changing messages: "WE MUST SHARE," "HUMOUR AMOUR," and the Boing Boing friendly "WE ARE MUTANTS." That is our poetry. That is our beautiful story. It's our romanticism: Mutation. We are mutants. And if we don't deeply understand, if we don't integrate that we are mutants, we completely miss the story. NOUS.... Boingboing.Net We Are Mutants {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - The lovely Google theme I use, NOUS, designed by Philippe Starck, described as "Vision, subversion, rébellion, humour, amour sont les seuls paramètres structurellement modernes," with colorful changing messages: "WE MUST SHARE," "HUMOUR AMOUR," and the Boing Boing friendly "WE ARE MUTANTS." That is our poetry. That is our beautiful story. It's our romanticism: Mutation. We are mutants. And if we don't deeply understand, if we don't integrate that we are mutants, we completely miss the story. NOUS....
We Are Mutants - Boing Boing {...}
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Category: Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk

]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - CHARMING STUDIO in Central Paris Montorgueil PARIS ( Paris centre 2nd arr FRANCE) $644 http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/charming-studio-in-central-paris-montorgueil-paris-2008118673.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/charming-studio-in-central-paris-montorgueil-paris-2008118673.htm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:42:29 GMT This charming and contemporary studio is located in the very center of Paris, on a famous pedestrian area : the "Montorgueil" neighbourhood ( 2nd arrondissement). Entirely renovated, this 20 square meter studio apartment is situated in a lovely 17th-century building , rue Dussoubs. A very great and central location ! 2 minute walk to "Chatelet-Les Halles" ,5 minutes to "Le Marais", 5 minutes to Pompidou center (Beaubourg ), 10 minutes to le Louvre Museum and 5 Minutes to "La place des Victoires". Nearby metro station Chatelet-Les-Halles wich is the largest metro hub in Paris with 5 metro and 3 RER lines, this excellent central Paris location offers every convenience at your doorstep like supermarket, bakeries, fruit markets , wine shops, fine restaurants, trendy bars, café, delicatessen etc... Living like a real Parisian in a typical neighbourhood in a charming apartment with all the amenities and comforts you`re used to at home. This apartement for two persons is fully equipped : new kitchen with vitro-ceramic cooker, microwave oven, oven, toaster, fridge-freezer, espresso-coffee-maker, toaster, kettle, etc. A convertible (very comfortable) wooden bed from a single to a double bed with all linens (sheets,pillow,etc...) bathroom with shower and washer-dryer, bathrooms linens, hair dryer. Iron and ironing board. At your disposal: flat screen TV, Unlimited Internet access for no extra cost (wireless or Ethernet), DVD & CD player and radio, telephone, french cellular phone with a card at your disposal. Home user guide at your disposal. Metro Châtelet-les-Halles or metro Sentier or Metro reaumur-Sebastopol, direct from CDG Airport and from railways stations ( gare du Nord, gare de l'Est, gare Montparnasse, gare St-Lazare) Rates all inclusive for the studio : 510 € for 7 nights (70 € each additional night) , 3-4 nights 85 € per night ; 5-6 nights 80 € per night. Please see the website for more informations: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/montorgueil.studio/ Please inquire for more informations, details, availability, Neighbourhood photos, etc... or call +33 (0) 6 60 34 62 98 Dominique or Serge +33 (0) 6 28 09 87 40 Sfbay.Craigslist.Org CHARMING STUDIO in Central Paris Montorgueil PARIS ( Paris centre 2nd arr FRANCE) $644 {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - This charming and contemporary studio is located in the very center of Paris, on a famous pedestrian area : the "Montorgueil" neighbourhood ( 2nd arrondissement). Entirely renovated, this 20 square meter studio apartment is situated in a lovely 17th-century building , rue Dussoubs. A very great and central location ! 2 minute walk to "Chatelet-Les Halles" ,5 minutes to "Le Marais", 5 minutes to Pompidou center (Beaubourg ), 10 minutes to le Louvre Museum and 5 Minutes to "La place des Victoires". Nearby metro station Chatelet-Les-Halles wich is the largest metro hub in Paris with 5 metro and 3 RER lines, this excellent central Paris location offers every convenience at your doorstep like supermarket, bakeries, fruit markets , wine shops, fine restaurants, trendy bars, café, delicatessen etc... Living like a real Parisian in a typical neighbourhood in a charming apartment with all the amenities and comforts you`re used to at home. This apartement for two persons is fully equipped : new kitchen with vitro-ceramic cooker, microwave oven, oven, toaster, fridge-freezer, espresso-coffee-maker, toaster, kettle, etc. A convertible (very comfortable) wooden bed from a single to a double bed with all linens (sheets,pillow,etc...) bathroom with shower and washer-dryer, bathrooms linens, hair dryer. Iron and ironing board. At your disposal: flat screen TV, Unlimited Internet access for no extra cost (wireless or Ethernet), DVD & CD player and radio, telephone, french cellular phone with a card at your disposal. Home user guide at your disposal. Metro Châtelet-les-Halles or metro Sentier or Metro reaumur-Sebastopol, direct from CDG Airport and from railways stations ( gare du Nord, gare de l'Est, gare Montparnasse, gare St-Lazare) Rates all inclusive for the studio : 510 € for 7 nights (70 € each additional night) , 3-4 nights 85 € per night ; 5-6 nights 80 € per night. Please see the website for more informations: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/montorgueil.studio/ Please inquire for more informations, details, availability, Neighbourhood photos, etc... or call +33 (0) 6 60 34 62 98 Dominique or Serge +33 (0) 6 28 09 87 40
CHARMING STUDIO in Central Paris Montorgueil PARIS {...}
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Category: Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Travel and Tourism > Lodging

]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Travel and Tourism > Lodging {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - #2 CUARTOS (san jose east) $695 http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/2-cuartos-san-jose-east-695-2008116666.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/2-cuartos-san-jose-east-695-2008116666.htm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:13:05 GMT OLA TENGO DOS CUARTOS DE RRENTA CON VANO PRIVADO DERECHO A COSINA CABLE PARA UNA PAREJA CON UN NINO O DOS NINOS SIN VISIOS Y RESPONSAVLES QUE LES GUSTE CONVIVIR FAMILIAR MENTE RENTA $695.00DEPOSITO 695.00 POR FAVOR DE LLAMAR AL 408.375.1305 O AL 408.286.1804 Sfbay.Craigslist.Org #2 CUARTOS (san jose east) $695 {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - OLA TENGO DOS CUARTOS DE RRENTA CON VANO PRIVADO DERECHO A COSINA CABLE PARA UNA PAREJA CON UN NINO O DOS NINOS SIN VISIOS Y RESPONSAVLES QUE LES GUSTE CONVIVIR FAMILIAR MENTE RENTA $695.00DEPOSITO 695.00 POR FAVOR DE LLAMAR AL 408.375.1305 O AL 408.286.1804
#2 CUARTOS {...}
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Category: Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals

]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals {LIBRARIES > WEBLOGS} - Yma Sumac R.I.P. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/library-and-information-science/weblogs/yma-sumac-r-i-p-2008119862.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/library-and-information-science/weblogs/yma-sumac-r-i-p-2008119862.htm Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:17:20 GMT Yma Sumac, one of the most unique and original singers of the 1950s passed away last Saturday aged 86. Born Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo in Peru in 1922, she was first noticed by a larger public in 1950, when her debut recording Voice of the Xtabay was released. The unsuspecting listener was not only confronted by lush orchestral arrangements conceived by the "king of easy listening" Les Baxter, but also by unprecedented vocal acrobatics. Sumac's voice had a range of four and a half octaves (she herself claimed to have five), and the record was clearly designed to showcase this incredible range in each and every song. Baxter managed to create a pseudo-exoticism that was on the one hand immediately recognizable as American, but that still carried a strange otherworldly flavour, which was further augmented by the claim that Sumac was actually an Inca princess. Together with the liner notes, which explained that "xtabay" was the primal female energy, the album was a stylized product of mythical exotic femininity. Voice of the Xtabay became a huge success; it is the only record that was never deleted from the Capitol catalogue since its first release in 1950. The success of Voice of the Xtabay led to other records; none of them was quite a match for the debut, but they still kept up the atmosphere of unrestrained exoticism and gave ample room to Sumac's vocal acrobatics. Inca Taqui from 1952, which further built on Sumac's alleged Inca heritage (which in turn led to the rumour that her real name was Amy Camus and that she was in reality a housewife from Brooklyn), was followed in 1954 by Mambo!, a crazy set of -- as the title suggests - eight fiery mambos, arranged by Billy May using brass sharper than a sane ear could bear and sung by Sumac in multiple voices reminiscent of anything between the Muppet Show and the Queen of the Night from Mozart's Magic Flute. It's more mambo that a sane person can stand, but it's an unique experience packaged inside a fantastic record cover. Sumac's success seemed to decline somewhat towards the late 1950s. Later recordings, such as Legend of Jivaro, whose liner notes claimed that Sumac and her husband Moises Vivanco had travelled to the Amazonian jungle and studied the music of the Jivaro, a tribe of savage headhunters, are lacking both the tightness and the novelty factor of earlier recordings; in fact the album cover of the Inca princess among the headhunters is slightly more appealing than the music. Still, even though record sales decreased, Sumac toured regularly through the United States and other countries, and her stage presence was legendary, even when her vocal range decreased with age. She retired in the 1980s, claiming to have moved to Peru (which was not true; she lived in Los Angeles), but appeared occasionally on stage, even at age 75 at the 1997 Montreal Jazz Festival. Yma Sumac, the "nightingale of the Andes", born September 13, 1922, died November 1, 2008. Homepage.Univie.Ac.At Yma Sumac R.I.P. {new window}   Homepage.Univie.Ac.At - Yma Sumac, one of the most unique and original singers of the 1950s passed away last Saturday aged 86. Born Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo in Peru in 1922, she was first noticed by a larger public in 1950, when her debut recording Voice of the Xtabay was released. The unsuspecting listener was not only confronted by lush orchestral arrangements conceived by the "king of easy listening" Les Baxter, but also by unprecedented vocal acrobatics. Sumac's voice had a range of four and a half octaves (she herself claimed to have five), and the record was clearly designed to showcase this incredible range in each and every song. Baxter managed to create a pseudo-exoticism that was on the one hand immediately recognizable as American, but that still carried a strange otherworldly flavour, which was further augmented by the claim that Sumac was actually an Inca princess. Together with the liner notes, which explained that "xtabay" was the primal female energy, the album was a stylized product of mythical exotic femininity. Voice of the Xtabay became a huge success; it is the only record that was never deleted from the Capitol catalogue since its first release in 1950. The success of Voice of the Xtabay led to other records; none of them was quite a match for the debut, but they still kept up the atmosphere of unrestrained exoticism and gave ample room to Sumac's vocal acrobatics. Inca Taqui from 1952, which further built on Sumac's alleged Inca heritage (which in turn led to the rumour that her real name was Amy Camus and that she was in reality a housewife from Brooklyn), was followed in 1954 by Mambo!, a crazy set of -- as the title suggests - eight fiery mambos, arranged by Billy May using brass sharper than a sane ear could bear and sung by Sumac in multiple voices reminiscent of anything between the Muppet Show and the Queen of the Night from Mozart's Magic Flute. It's more mambo that a sane person can stand, but it's an unique experience packaged inside a fantastic record cover. Sumac's success seemed to decline somewhat towards the late 1950s. Later recordings, such as Legend of Jivaro, whose liner notes claimed that Sumac and her husband Moises Vivanco had travelled to the Amazonian jungle and studied the music of the Jivaro, a tribe of savage headhunters, are lacking both the tightness and the novelty factor of earlier recordings; in fact the album cover of the Inca princess among the headhunters is slightly more appealing than the music. Still, even though record sales decreased, Sumac toured regularly through the United States and other countries, and her stage presence was legendary, even when her vocal range decreased with age. She retired in the 1980s, claiming to have moved to Peru (which was not true; she lived in Los Angeles), but appeared occasionally on stage, even at age 75 at the 1997 Montreal Jazz Festival. Yma Sumac, the "nightingale of the Andes", born September 13, 1922, died November 1, 2008.
The Aardvark Speaks: Yma Sumac R.I.P. {...}
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Category: Reference > Libraries > Library and Information Science > Weblogs

]]> Reference > Libraries > Library and Information Science > Weblogs {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President Sarkozy http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/palin-brutally-punk-d-by-fake-french-president-sarkozy-2008117892.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/palin-brutally-punk-d-by-fake-french-president-sarkozy-2008117892.htm Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:54:36 GMT The popular Montreal comedy duo Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel, aka "The Masked Avengers" ( Les Justiciers Masqués ) are notorious for prank-calling heads of state and celebrities who take themselves a little too seriously. Surely none take themselves so seriously as Sarah Palin. She was pranked by the pair today when they social-hacked their way past security and convinced her she was speaking to Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France. Fake Sarkozy tells Palin that his wife is "hot in bed," drops plenty of hints it's a fake call, and suggests Palin would make a good president "one day you too." She replies, "well, maybe in eight years!" Snip: He tells Palin one of his favorite pastimes is hunting, also a passion of the 44-year-old Alaska governor. "I just love killing those animals. Mmm, mmm, take away life, that is so fun," the fake Sarkozy says. He proposes they go hunting together by helicopter, something he says he has never done. "Well, I think we could have a lot of fun together while we're getting work done," Palin counters. "We can kill two birds with one stone that way." The comedian jokes that they shouldn't bring Cheney along on the hunt, referring to the 2006 incident in which the vice-president shot and injured a friend while hunting quail. "I'll be a careful shot," responds Palin. Playing off the governor's much-mocked comment in an early television interview that she had insights into foreign policy because "you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska," the caller tells her: "You know we have a lot in common also, because ... from my house I can see Belgium." She replies: "Well, see, we're right next door to different countries that we all need to be working with, yes."(...) He also tells the Alaska governor that he loved the "documentary" made about her and referred to a pornographic film with a Palin look-alike made by Hustler founder Larry Flynt. She answers tentatively, "Ohh, good, thank you, yes." Perhaps most damning of all: at the very end of the call, despite the prank caller identifying himself as phoning in from MONTREAL, Palin tells "Bexie" as she hands the phone back that it's a "radio station from France." Don't forget to vote, folks! Coverage: Washington Post, AP via HuffPo. Here's the comedy duo's home page. (thanks, Richard Metzger)... Boingboing.Net Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President Sarkozy {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - The popular Montreal comedy duo Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel, aka "The Masked Avengers" ( Les Justiciers Masqués ) are notorious for prank-calling heads of state and celebrities who take themselves a little too seriously. Surely none take themselves so seriously as Sarah Palin. She was pranked by the pair today when they social-hacked their way past security and convinced her she was speaking to Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France. Fake Sarkozy tells Palin that his wife is "hot in bed," drops plenty of hints it's a fake call, and suggests Palin would make a good president "one day you too." She replies, "well, maybe in eight years!" Snip: He tells Palin one of his favorite pastimes is hunting, also a passion of the 44-year-old Alaska governor. "I just love killing those animals. Mmm, mmm, take away life, that is so fun," the fake Sarkozy says. He proposes they go hunting together by helicopter, something he says he has never done. "Well, I think we could have a lot of fun together while we're getting work done," Palin counters. "We can kill two birds with one stone that way." The comedian jokes that they shouldn't bring Cheney along on the hunt, referring to the 2006 incident in which the vice-president shot and injured a friend while hunting quail. "I'll be a careful shot," responds Palin. Playing off the governor's much-mocked comment in an early television interview that she had insights into foreign policy because "you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska," the caller tells her: "You know we have a lot in common also, because ... from my house I can see Belgium." She replies: "Well, see, we're right next door to different countries that we all need to be working with, yes."(...) He also tells the Alaska governor that he loved the "documentary" made about her and referred to a pornographic film with a Palin look-alike made by Hustler founder Larry Flynt. She answers tentatively, "Ohh, good, thank you, yes." Perhaps most damning of all: at the very end of the call, despite the prank caller identifying himself as phoning in from MONTREAL, Palin tells "Bexie" as she hands the phone back that it's a "radio station from France." Don't forget to vote, folks! Coverage: Washington Post, AP via HuffPo. Here's the comedy duo's home page. (thanks, Richard Metzger)...
Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President Sarkozy - Boing Boing {...}
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Category: Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk

]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk {EUROPE > COMPUTERS AND INTERNET} - French Senate passes bill to disconnect filesharers http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/business-and-economy/computers-and-internet/french-senate-passes-bill-to-disconnect-filesharers-2008116922.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/business-and-economy/computers-and-internet/french-senate-passes-bill-to-disconnect-filesharers-2008116922.htm Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:38:05 GMT Three strikes for les gratuittards The French Senate has overwhelmingly voted in favor of disconnecting Internet pirates, despite European Parliament's direct opposition to the punishment.? Theregister.Co.Uk French Senate passes bill to disconnect filesharers {new window}   Www.Theregister.Co.Uk - Three strikes for les gratuittards The French Senate has overwhelmingly voted in favor of disconnecting Internet pirates, despite European Parliament's direct opposition to the punishment.?
French Senate passes bill to disconnect filesharers ? The Register {...}
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Category: Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > Business and Economy > Computers and Internet

]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > Business and Economy > Computers and Internet