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[Sun, 21 Sep 2003]
Iraq, America, and France
There has recently
been some interesting stuff about America's Iraqi
quagmire and how the French are (not) helping. Thomas Friedman, in NYT,
said
that the French are now American enemies and that its not just a case
of schadenfreude but also a French attempt to equal American power.
Guillaume Parmentier, in IHT,
countered
that the French are being
vilified wrongly. He says its not a case of schadenfreude and its just
that the French are wary of a unipolar world with so much power invested
in the hands of one single country. He did point out that
until recently, America itself had been wary of such extreme concentrations of
power. Another guy, at Newsweek,
discusses
why so many Americans still
believe that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. He does accept that the
current French attitude is an acute case of schadenfreude but blames the
Americans themselves for getting themselves in this mess. Finally, Thomas
Friedman
sounds
rather despondent in his new NYT op-ed.
Mini or Rolls ?
Pick the mini, seriously! The new Rolls Royce
looks hideous.
Plus, the Mini's a tad cheaper.
She's not fat, she's a ballerina
The Bolshoi ballet
is
firing one of their more prominent stars. Ostensibly, one of the
reasons is that she's too umm...big for others to lift her.