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I have been lucky enough to have this fashion parade comedy musical film in my life since the mid 70s when New Zealand TV stations sent all their old 16mm prints to Australia for junking.
It should be clear to Kim by now that his parade of provocations is not benefiting his country.
Disappearing in a final parade of passion and energy, of restlessness and quiet rebellion, of inner fissures and desire for harmony, was someone who had spent his life trying not to survive.
Russia’s Indefensible Military BudgetPARIS – On May 9, Russia held its largest military parade since the Soviet era.
And, also in the tradition of that era, ordinary people were quick to joke when the tank stalled during the parade rehearsal: “The Armata truly has unprecedented destructive power; a battalion can destroy the entire Russian budget!”
But the majority opinion of Justice John Paul Stevens paid little heed to the Administration's parade of horribles.
Macron has so far handled Trump cleverly: he appeased Trump’s inner martinet by inviting him to the Bastille Day military parade last summer, but he has also challenged Trump publicly, with everything from a bravura handshake at their first meeting to a defense of the Iran nuclear deal.
The military parade, dominated by the celebration of “victory” in Mali and the joint participation of African and United Nations troops, had the perfection of a gracious, albeit muscular, ballet.
There were many more candidates in 1997, three years before the 2000 presidential election, a veritable parade of names representing different sections of the nomenklatura and political spectrum: Chernomyrdin, Yavlinskiy, Lebed, Luzhkov, Nemtsov, Zhirinovskiy.
This parade of toppled and ousted governments has led Pavin Chchavalpongpun, another eminent Thai scholar, to call his country a “failed state.”
If an extended period of depressed growth following a crisis isn’t the right moment to challenge them, then when is?South Korea’s Middle-Power DiplomacyBEIJING – Last week, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, despite the opposition of her country’s closest ally, the United States, stood together with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Tiananmen Square to watch the military parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of World War II’s end in Asia.
The upcoming 70th anniversary celebration of the founding of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea will reportedly entail a large-scale military parade and a ballistic missile test.
By increasing oil and gas prices, or limiting supplies, flexing its military muscles in Georgia, or sending ships to Cuba and Venezuela to parade Russia’s power on the world stage, Putin has convinced many people that Russia is back.
The parade of gaffes and subsequent groveling apologies has become a regular feature of public life.
The grand military parade commemorating the anniversary of the end of the Siege of Leningrad, planned for January 29 in St. Petersburg, may inspire patriotism, but it will in no way reflect the real drama of the city’s starving inhabitants.
Indeed, the reaction was so extreme and alarming that a parade of Fed officials felt compelled to clarify.
The Rain on Russia’s ParadeWASHINGTON, DC – When Russian President Vladimir Putin presides over the military parade commemorating Victory in Europe Day on May 9, he will not attract the crowd he could have expected a couple of years ago.
The diplomatic tension is ironic, because the parade in Moscow is meant to commemorate a victory made possible seven decades ago by the alliance of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany.
Every night, the parade of stars up the red carpet, flanked by photographers, played out like a relic of a more ritualistic time.
The distorted markets imposed on Russia by the new oligarchs created by Russia's market "deforms" (I refuse to let such monstrosities parade under the name of reform) has brought the country back full circle.
Not to rain on officials’ parade, but we fear that they are taking too much comfort in the stabilization of economic conditions.
Cheney’s influence resulted in the bloody disaster of Iraq, the moral humiliation of Guantanamo, water-boarding and “extraordinary rendition,” the despair of friends and the contempt of critics, a full-dress parade of double standards around the globe.
China’s Short MarchBEIJING – China’s government is making massive preparations for a grand National Day parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to celebrate both the 60th anniversary of the PRC’s founding and the 30th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s program of “reform and opening up.”
China’s History ParadeBEIJING – The grand parade in the center of Beijing on September 3 to commemorate the end of World War II in China highlighted two contradictory narratives, both immensely important for understanding the country’s future path.
Xi’s announcement could also be seen as a skillful way to announce a major budget cut – an economic measure sweetened by the patriotic symbolism of a parade celebrating China’s military might.
During his speech at the parade, Xi did not explicitly mention the non-Communist fighters who fought the Japanese.
Indeed, the main symbol of China’s wartime past during the parade was the poignant participation of a small number of Chinese WWII veterans.
Although Xi, too, did not explicitly mention the Nationalist veterans’ role in his parade speech, they were given an honored place – a move driven not by a desire to set the historical record straight, but by shrewd political calculus.
Why not get back in front of the parade and demonstrate a capacity for leadership in changing times?
Both parade their fiscal virtue and insist that deficit countries stop their irresponsible spending.
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