2-26-08—The US wants two of the biggest sovereign wealth funds to embrace promises that they won’t use their wealth for political advantage. WSJ A1
—The Pentagon is projecting that when the US troop buildup in Iraq ends in July there will be about 8000 more troops on the ground than when it began in January 2007, a senior general said Monday. NYT A10
--Javier Bardem [Spain], Marion Cotillard [France], Daniel Day-Lewis [Ireland] and Tilda Swinton [Scotland] are each taking statues across the Atlantic. Oscars for art direction, makeup and costume design all went to people for whom the US is a passport stamp. ... [best song went to “one Irish, one Czech’] ... “It was a huge victory for the Celts,” [said Tilda Swinton, with a “rich, complicated private life”] “Spain, France, England, we all served as a reminder that it was Europeans that invented Hollywood in the first place..” [Presidents of Fox and Miramax are British] NYT B1, B8
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