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TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART I

TABLE OF CONTENTS PARTS II, III, IV & V ARE ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES.

EDITORIAL: Why American democracy will fail in Iraq. What the Americans should know more about the Arab political psyche,  by Maximillien de Lafayette, Esquire. The enormous differences between the Arab/Islamic and American "democratic" laws and ways of life will not allow the Bush's administration to create a democratic regime in Iraq or in any Arab country, not now and not in five hundred thousands years to come!! Many American Presidents before him and  a considerable number of world's leaders tried to establish democracy in the Arab world and failed. But President Bush, strongly,  honestly and stubbornly believes that he can change the world! Good luck, Mr President...........................................................................................................................................................................................4-8

1-USA/IRAQ

Iraq Scandal:  Iraq scandal reveals Red Cross pressures. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been in the spotlight this week, following the revelations about the abuse of Iraqis held in Abu Ghraib prison by coalition forces. The ICRC is the body officially mandated by the Geneva Conventions to visit prisoners of war to ensure they are being humanely treated. And the Red Cross had visited Abu Ghraib many times, it knew of the abuses, but only went public with its knowledge when forced to. Critics now accuse the Red Cross - widely regarded as the guardian of the Geneva Conventions - of being the last to mention that the conventions are being violated. No comment : The ICRC can be a difficult assignment for journalists: Red Cross delegates are active in some of the most newsworthy parts of the world, but they have a policy of not talking about their work.........................................................................................................................................9-11

Trial: A fourth US soldier is to face court martial over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, the American army has said. Military Police Cpl Charles A Graner will appear before a court on Thursday to enter a plea on charges including cruelty and maltreatment of detainees. One abuse suspect, Jeremy Sivits, has made detailed allegations about his colleagues, including Cpl Graner. In Baghdad, the US military has begun releasing more than 300 inmates from Abu Ghraib jail. Seven soldiers have so far been charged over abuse at the jail - three are still waiting to hear if they will face trial..................13

Abuse: IRAQ PRISON ABUSE AND AND SCANDAL: KEY PLAYERS from the highest military officials to the journalists who broke the story, BBC News Online looks at the figures in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal. The hawkish Mr Rumsfeld, one of the chief architects of the Iraq war, faced calls for his resignation when the scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad first broke. An investigation into abuse at the prison was completed in early March, but even two months later, Mr Rumsfeld had still not read the report fully. He was forced to offer his deepest apologies for what had happened, saying he had not realised.......................... 14-17

Atrocities: IRAQ ATROCITIES AND ABUSE: US NORMAL POLICY OR ANOMALY? A key question which remains unresolved after the furore over the photos of alleged Iraqi prisoner abuse is to what extent the breaking of prisoner morale is still part of American policy. The man brought in to run the Abu Ghraib prison is Maj Gen Geoffrey Miller, the man who ran the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He told reporters who were shown the prison near Baghdad that sensory deprivation methods would now be used only after a general had "signed off" on them. "We will examine very closely the more aggressive techniques," he said. But he did not say they would be stopped. Yet he also said on Saturday that the Geneva Conventions would be applied in Iraq...............................................................................................................18-21

Rumsfeld: The US media believes that Donald Rumsfeld is safe in his job as the US defence secretary following a ringing endorsement by President Bush amid the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. But that has not stopped some commentators from questioning the president's decision, or pointing out that there could be a change of heart if the political fallout from the affair continues to worsen. As John King of CNN reported, the White House believes that the scandal will get much worse with the release of additional photos and video. And an editorial in the Washington Post said that by congratulating Mr Rumsfeld and describing the abuses as aberrations the president had not responded correctly to what it described as "the nation's worst disgraces". But President Bush is famous for his fierce loyalty to his inner circle and unlikely to force Mr Rumsfeld from office..............................................................................................................................22

Sovereignty: With a handover in Iraq to an interim but "sovereign" government due at the end of next month, some of the key issues which will determine whether that government has any real powers remain unresolved. The big problem is security. If the new government has no power to control the American and other troops which will stay on with its agreement, it will lack even the basic elements of sovereignty. It will in any case have no power to make or change laws during the six months or so it will hold office as a caretaker until elections in December or January. A senior British official said that the new Iraqi government had to have a major security role if ................................23

2-UNITED KINGDOM

UK/IRAQ: The Daily Mirror has said sorry to the regiment it accused of torture after publishing fake pictures of UK troops abusing Iraqi prisoners. The Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) accepted the apology but called for the newspaper to help root out those responsible for the photos. Following the sacking of editor Piers Morgan, the tabloid also apologised to readers and to UK armed forces in Iraq. The QLR said the Mirror had endangered British troops by running the pictures. ...................................24

Blair: Will he stay or will he go? It seems that wherever the prime minister goes these days, there are reporters asking him how long he plans to keep his job. This is a man with a thumping great parliamentary majority, a strong record of economic growth, low inflation, low interest rates and the lowest number of unemployed for years. So why is his situation so precarious? The single-word answer is of course Iraq. No one has ever doubted Tony Blair's conviction when it comes to his belief in the rightness of the war. Indeed no one disputes the fact that ridding the world of Saddam Hussein is a good thing. The problem is that having won the war, the coalition is rapidly losing the peace. People may have thought the abiding image from the conflict would be the toppling of Saddam's statue by the Iraqi people............................................25

UK/IRAQ: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) report on the treatment of Iraqi detainees by coalition troops has not been published officially but leaked copies of the document are available on the Wall Street Journal's website. The report does not generally distinguish between British and American forces but there are specific criticisms which appear to be aimed at areas under British command. Those are: The ICRC examined the arrest of nine men, one of whom died, by coalition forces in Basra on 13 September 2003. "Following their arrest, the nine men were made to kneel, face and hands against the ground, as if in a prayer position. "The soldiers stamped on the back of the neck of those raising their head. They confiscated their money without issuing a receipt." The report says the men were later "severely beaten" by coalition troops....................................................................................................26

Rich crooks: This is a rich list with a difference, a roll call of the UK's wealthiest criminals, among them drug barons, people smugglers and fraudsters. Crime does pay - for some. The richest villains in the UK are worth hundreds of millions of pounds, with the number one fraudster said to be as rich as the Queen. The BBC has delved into the criminal underworld to discover the elite of British crime to produce the Underworld Rich List (see below). The resulting three-part series of the same name follows the fortunes of these villains, among them Mickey Green, a London armed robber-turned-drug trafficker; Curtis Warren, a Toxteth street dealer who's made it big; and professional gambler Brian Wright, who is now a fugitive cocaine baron........................................................................................................................................27

Terror: IS UK READY FOR A TERROR ATTACK? In light of the devastating bomb blasts in Madrid, attention in the UK has focused the real possibility that Britain could be next. More than at any time since the 11 September 2001 attacks, the devastating attack on Madrid's rail network earlier this month have brought into sharp focus the very real possibility that the UK will eventually be the target for a similar atrocity. Police, security experts and government officials are agreed that Britain, and the capital in particular, would be obvious targets. Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir John Stevens called the sceptre of an attack "inevitable"; Mayor of London Ken Livingstone said it would be "miraculous" if the capital escaped attack; and cabinet minister Peter Hain admitted the UK was a "frontline target". ...........................................................28

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UK/USA: Should Blair stand by Bush? Read world opinions. UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged continued allegiance with US President George Bush. Mr Blair has dismissed calls, including some from within his own party, to distance himself from the president. In an interview with British newspaper the Independent, he said he would not end British support for its "main ally" and added that it was "in the interests of the world" that the UK continued to support the military coalition in Iraq. ........................................................................................29-32

4-WORLD NEWS

World: Pope John Paul is due to create six new saints at a ceremony in the Vatican. They include an Italian woman who has become a symbol of the anti-abortion movement. Gianna Beretta Molla died of cancer in 1962 after refusing life-saving treatment that would have involved the termination of her pregnancy. Other new saints include a 19th-century Lebanese priest, Nimatullah al-Hardini, who has been praised for his tolerance towards other religions. Sunday's ceremony will raise to more than 480 the number of saints created by John Paul II during his 25-year papacy.........................................................................................................33

Israel: Israel's pull out: More than 100,000 Israelis have attended a rally calling for an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The rally in Tel Aviv was organised to show support for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's pullout plan. The controversial plan has been rejected by the ruling Likud party but polls show most Israelis support it. Meanwhile, Palestinians won a small victory when an Israeli Court imposed a temporary ban on the demolition of houses in the Gaza Strip. The ruling was announced after Israeli troops pulled out of the Palestinian refugee camp of Rafah, having bulldozed dozens of homes. And early on Sunday morning, Israeli helicopters fired more missiles at targets in Gaza City.............................................................................................33

World News. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday blamed Yasser Arafat for blocking U.S. efforts to strengthen Palestinian security forces as a means of ending terror attacks on Israel. Winding up his latest effort to push peacemaking forward, without any apparent concrete results, Powell also criticized Arafat for a statement the Palestinian leader made Saturday to his people urging them to ``find whatever strength you have to terrorize your enemy.'' ``Mr. Arafat continues to take actions and make statements to make it exceptionally difficult to move forward'' on peacemaking, Powell said at a news conference before returning to Washington from the World Economic Forum held at an isolated Dead Sea resort. ........................................................................................................................................................................34

US AND THE GENEVA: US questions needs to comply with Geneva convention. The Iraq prisoner abuse scandal shifted Sunday to the question of whether the U.S. administration set up a legal foundation that opened the door for the mistreatment. Within months of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales reportedly wrote President George W. Bush a memo about the terrorism fight and prisoners' rights under the Geneva Convention. "In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions,"....................................................................................................................35

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART II

5-WORLD ENTERTAINMENT

EUROVISION: The Eurovision: Full Coverage. The contestants, winners, awards, photos. Istanbul's Abdi Ipecki stadium is usually a sweaty basketball stadium, but was transformed into a stage fit for one of the biggest musical events in the world. With an enthusiastic capacity crowd flying flags of many nations, the atmosphere was electric - clearly this contest was shaping up as a night to remember.  Last year's Turkish victor Sertab Erener set the stadium ablaze with a rousing rendition of her winning song, surrounded by a coterie of gold-dusted nymphs and then the magical whirling dervishes....................................................................................................................................................36-45

Moore: French protesters briefly brought the fourth day of the Cannes film festival to a halt on Saturday with a loud march in front of the red carpet. The demonstration by about 500 entertainment industry workers over government cuts to their unemployment benefits paralysed the seafront area of the Riviera town for about two hours. Although the day's main competition film, Shrek 2, went on without a problem, several other screenings were interrupted or cancelled. In one case, a dozen workers who had pushed their way into a theatre were forcibly removed by police.................................................................................41

Jackson: A court order that bars anyone involved in the Michael Jackson child abuse case from talking about it must stay, prosecutors have said. A letter sent to the California Supreme Court said it was crucial in ensuring potential jurors were left untainted. It also said the Jackson case, due to go to trial, had sparked intense media interest and gossip. What was "reported as 'fact' becomes the nucleus of intense speculation", it said. Mr Jackson denies the charges. The letter was filed by District Attorney Thomas Sneddon and Deputy District Attorney Gerald Franklin. "Unseemly enthusiasm": Mr Jackson has pleaded not guilty to 10 child molestation charges, which include a charge of conspiracy to abduct a child..................................................................................................................................48

White House VS MOORE: The White House tried to halt the making and release of Michael Moore's new film Fahrenheit 9/11, the film-maker alleged in Cannes on Sunday. The director told a Cannes audience the Bush administration wanted to keep the film off screens in the run-up to November's US election. The film examines the Iraq war and alleges connections between the Bush and Bin Laden families. Fahrenheit 9/11 is to get its world premiere in Cannes on Monday. Film studio Disney had backed out of a deal to distribute the film in the US for political reasons, Moore says. He has given no evidence to substantiate his allegations, but said "someone connected to the White House" and a "top Republican" had put pressure on film companies not to release the film. Moore said the few who had seen the film had told him "the potential for this film to have an impact on the election was much larger than they thought". Undercover in Iraq: The film was originally scheduled to be released through Disney-backed independent studio Miramax, before Disney blocked it. It is now expected to be released through a third party. Disney accused Moore of engineering a dispute about the film's release to gain maximum publicity.................................................................................................49

CANNES: Will CANNES Buzz Again? This year's Cannes film festival is  combining Hollywood glamour, art house excellence and industry dealings. Last year's Cannes was widely proclaimed as one of the dullest in festival history, with a paucity of stars, controversy and films to set the movie world alight. But this year, there are signs the annual bonanza on the French Riviera could return to form. A-list stars should be in abundance, with Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz and Tom Hanks among those with films in the official selection.  Cannes will be a launch pad for Greek epic Troy, in which Pitt plays Achilles, while Shrek 2 - using the voice of Diaz - and The Ladykillers, starring Hanks, are both in the running for the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or.  But the most attention could be given not to a screen idol but to the outspoken documentary-maker Michael Moore, whose new film, Fahrenheit 911, is also among the 18 movies in competition.  "Already, the entire world is going to be watching Cannes because of Michael Moore," according .........................................49

Pitt: Pitt, who plays Achilles in the ancient Greek story, said at the film's opening in Cannes: "The themes that Homer had still resonate today." Burrows described a "terrible sense of deja vu about what the Trojans faced and what we're facing at the moment". The film, which opens in the US on Friday, has so far had mixed reviews. Troy, which cost $200m (£115m) to make, is based on Homer's Iliad and also stars Lord of the Rings' Orlando Bloom, Hulk star Eric Bana and British stars Julie Christie, Brian Cox and Peter O'Toole. The film was famously forced to move locations from Morocco to Mexico when film studio Warners decided Morocco was too dangerous............................................................................50

6-CINEMA AND FILMS REVIEWS

Press Reviews: TROY Film critics in the US and the UK have given mixed reviews about Wolfgang Petersen's latest movie Troy. Los Angeles Times: It should be said that Troy is only half silly. It is also half serious, not to mention half bloody and half talky, half well-acted and half walked through, half faithful to its venerable sources and half wildly invented. Yes, that's an awful lot of halves, but this is a movie that's nearly two and three-quarter hours in length. Washington Post: Just don't go into Troy expecting adherence to the subtler details of The Iliad. (This movie is to Homer's original what Charlton Heston's The Ten Commandments was to the Old Testament.) For starters, the gods are pretty much gone. No Zeus or Hera. No Aphrodite and the golden apple she offers to Paris. There's frequent mention of the sun god, whose temple Achilles desecrates at one point...........................................................................................................................................52-55

Glamour: THE GLAMOUR, THE FILMS, THE STARS, CELEBRITIES AND JURY MEMBERS OF CANNES IN PICTURES..................63-74

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART IV

15-THEATRE

Hamlet: An unforgettable and most lovable Hamlet.This is the kind of evening of which legends are made, one of those rare first nights that those who were present are never likely to forget. Ben Whishaw as a raw and vulnerable Hamlet with Imogen Stubbs as a sex-obsessed Gertrude were perfect. No theatre has boasted a more illustrious line-up of Hamlets than the Old Vic, among them Gielgud, Olivier, Burton, Guinness, Redgrave, O'Toole and Jacobi. Last night,23 year old Ben Whishaw  spectacularly earned his place in such distinguished company. Ben who?, you may well be asking, and you would be entirely within your rights to do so. Whishaw only left RADA last year and was last seen playing bit parts in the National Theatre's Christmas production of His Dark Materials. Trevor Nunn spotted his potential, and signed him up for this thrillingly youthful production, in which all the younger roles are played by actors in their early twenties...................................................102

 Bennett: School's back with Bennett at his best. Class act: The History Boys is one of the finest plays Alan Bennett has written It is getting on for 40 years since Alan Bennett made his wildly entertaining debut as dramatist with Forty Years On, set in a minor English public school. Though Bennett has described the play as "an elaborate life-support system for the preservation of bad jokes", it was also a notably ambitious piece that wittily refracted key events and personalities of 20th-century England through the dramatic prism of a chaotic end-of-term revue. In this eagerly awaited new drama, he returns to the themes with which he began, in a play that, as the title suggests, has schoolboys and history at its centre. Appropriately enough, last night's press performance of The History Boys began like a scene from Forty Years On. Just before the show was due to start, a small fire broke out in the lighting rig, setting off the sprinkler system and drenching the stage................102-104

Loneliness: Loneliness played to perfection. At the time of its West End premiere in 1962, Charles Dyer's Rattle of a Simple Man probably gave the theatrical censor, the Lord Chamberlain, serious pause for thought, while many members of the first-night audience doubtless concluded that it was far too risqué for their maiden aunt.  Now it seems, initially at least, almost quaint in its innocence, a reminder of the vanished world we inhabited before, as Philip Larkin wittily put it, sexual intercourse began in 1963. The play is virtually a two-hander, set during a single night when Percy, a gauche Mancunian down in London for a football match, accepts a £50 bet from his mates to go off with a prostitute. One quickly realises that it was only the drink that persuaded him take on this highly uncharacteristic challenge. As he arrives at Cyrenne's basement bed-sit, this tongue-tied middle-aged virgin who lives at home with his mum and works as a number-cruncher in the research department of the local mill, is overcome with embarrassment....104

16-SHOWBIZ: NEWSMAKERS & WORLD CELEBRITIES

Showbiz: Hanks told reporters at Cannes that he wanted to avoid comparisons with the original's star, Sir Alec Guinness. "The last thing I wanted was to see the film and inadvertently imitate Sir Alec," he said at a press conference. Hanks also offered his support to US soldiers in Iraq. "God bless every one of them," he said. Hanks, who starred in Steven Spielberg's film Saving Private Ryan, said the world was living in "extremely tough times". Hollywood players: He was positive about the work of US troops.....The male star of British director Michael Winterbottom's sexually explicit new film has defended the movie, Nine Songs, at Cannes. Kieran O'Brien, who stars with US actress Margo Stilley, said: "There is no film like this, it is so graphic.  "If people ask 'why make this film?' I would say 'why not?'," the actor said.  O'Brien has been talking about the film at the festival, but Stilley is not publicising her role - and is not named in the film's closing credits.  The film, which includes real sex scenes, has been shown in at the festival.  "People who have seen it, even though they are forewarned about how explicit it is, come out of the cinema saying they can't believe that it's so explicit,".................................................................105

Brando: Brando to star as himself in film: Veteran actor Marlon Brando is set to make a big screen comeback, playing himself in a low-budget drama.Brando and Brando, details of which have been revealed at Cannes, is about a young boy who heads for the US in search of the actor. Shooting on the £3m project, to be directed by Tunisian filmmaker Ridha Behi, will begin this summer. Brando, who recently turned 80, was last seen on screen in the 2001 crime drama The Score...Director Quentin Tarantino been handed a special new award by the French government at the Cannes Film Festival....Director Michael Moore has been tipped by critics as one of the favourites to win the top prize - the Palme d'Or - at the Cannes Film Festival.........................106-108

Jolie: Actress Jolie's animation passion. Working on animations is more exciting than performing in the flesh - even though actors are paid less, Will Smith and Angelina Jolie have said...................................................................................109

George Michael:  After lying low for several years, George Michael is gingerly re-entering the demanding world of music. His wounds from years of negative reports in the media -- most centred around the embarrassing arrest for indecency in a Los Angeles public washroom and a legal battle with his label Sony -- have healed somewhat, though left scars. He's also emerged from a bout with depression prompted by the death of his mother from cancer in 1997, during which time, Michael says, writing was akin to pulling teeth. "I was just depressed," he said in an interview with The Canadian Press. "It took a long time to get over, unfortunately." As part of his therapy, and to keep up his musical chops..................................................................................................................................109-110

Davis: Veteran actor never expected the part.One thing's for sure. Movie fans who are familiar with actor Ossie Davis' stellar career, one that spans more than 50 years in the movies, never, ever expected him to be offered the role of John F. Kennedy. "Let me join you," says Davis in a telephone interview to promote next Tuesday's video release of the cult film Bubba Ho-Tep. "And even now I'm still surprised at the kind of response it's getting." Bubba Ho-Tep is one of those underground films that defines the term cult favourite. Directed by indie filmmaker Don Coscarelli (The Phantasm), it proposes that Elvis Presley and slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy are still alive and living incognito in a Texas old-age home. There, they become aware that a demon mummy is at large stealing the souls of the elderly and they must join forces............................111

17-CONTROVERSY

Review: Fahrenheit 9/11. Controversial documentary-maker Michael Moore's intensely political new film, Fahrenheit 9/11, was screened for the world's media at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday. Disney has refused to release this film, other distributors also seem reluctant and - if Moore is to be believed - the White House wants to stop it being seen. The reason is if viewers take the film at face value, they will think George Bush is a fraudulent and possibly corrupt president who went to war in Iraq because of a half-baked motivation of grudge, greed and thirst for power. But this is a Michael Moore film and, while that does not mean he is wrong, it must be watched with a critical eye. Moore wants Bush removed from office. He is determined to have this film released before the US presidential election in November for that very reason. ..........................................................................119-120

18-WORLD BREAKING NEWS

Chalabi: HE FOOLED THE AMERICANS BIG TIME AND GOT PAID $30MILLIONS  AND NEVER TOLD THEM ONE SECRET!! U.S. troops and Iraqi police raided the home and party offices of Washington's former top Iraq  ally Ahmad Chalabi, whipping up fresh turbulence in the run-up to a U.S. handover of power.  Iraqi judge Hassan Muathin said the raid was carried out under an arrest warrant for men wanted for stealing state-owned vehicles, but CBS reported Chalabi had passed sensitive U.S. intelligence to Iran that could "get Americans killed."  The U.S. television network cited unidentified senior U.S. officials for its information, but no independent confirmation of the report was immediately available. Four months ago Chalabi was a guest of first lady Laura Bush at the State of the Union speech, Washington's premier political event, and a favorite of the Pentagon, which paid his Iraqi National Congress $340,000 a month for intelligence. President Bush is shown with Chalabi (R) and Iraqi Governing Counsel member Dr. Jalal Talabani in Baghdad Nov. 27, 2003..........................................................................................121-123

Military: The actions by U.S. military personnel in those photos do not in any way represent the values of our country or of the armed forces,'' said Mr Rumsfeld, and I do believe him. Dr Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, told the Arab television network Al Arabiya that Bush was ''determined to find out if there is any wider problem than just what happened at Abu Ghraib. And so he has told Secretary Rumsfeld that he expects an investigation, a full accounting.'', and I do believe her. On behalf of President Bush, Defence Secretary Rumsfeld said: "We're taking and will continue to take whatever steps are necessary to hold accountable those that may have violated the code of military conduct and betrayed the trust placed in them by the American people.", and I do believe him............................................124-126

20-DIVAS

Bitton: Raquel Bitton… a warm, intelligent, creative, innovative and a  powerful singer! “ When I told Bitton that she had the voice, the physical structure and style of Edith Piaf……….Briton rejected this analogy…and strongly she did! She made it clear to me that she is not Piaf but herself with her own style, artistic interpretation, style autonomy and individuality. She completely distant herself from Piaf! Maybe…perhaps the individuality of her style, her “facon” meaning “her own way of singing” and above all her very strong personality constitute the trilogy of her phenomenal international success. She separates herself from the Piaf's style, from the Piaf's persona, from the Piaf's artistic essence, for the Piaf's...............................127-137

Loring: Interview with Gloria Loring: The woman, the artist, the actress, the author, the thinker and lady of wisdom. Loring: "This life has been the one I've needed to live... don't think I ever had a vision. I just wanted to sing and be heard. So there's nothing new in what I do. I've just been trying all these years to become the best and fullest expression of this "Gloria." If anything, I've accepted that we are all linked by our best and worst intentions, emotions and motivations. I feel all the things everyone does, and that's what I have come to look for in my musical expressions - our commonality.".................................................................................................................................................138-141

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART V

24-WORLD ENTERTAINMENT/WORLD GREATEST SINGERS

Famous Singers: THE INTERNATIONAL POLLS. Previously, WACJ (World Art Celebrities Journal) conducted two international polls in 65 countries and in the United States and targeted audiences which constituted the majority of its readers in the eastern and western hemispheres. Over 200.000 questionnaires were completed and sent back to the magazine. No importance was given to the age, profession and political views of those persons who received and answered the questionnaires. The results received from those previous polls are diametrically different from the results of this current poll which was conducted between May and September of 2003. The results were different and perhaps contradictory for obvious reasons. We have published the results of the two previous international polls in other sections of this edition. Please refer to.  In 2003, between May 2^nd and September 7^th,  and April  16th  and May 14th  WACJ circulated approximately 600.000 questionnaire/lists among its readers and music lovers in 125 countries members of the United Nations..................................................................................................................................................165-167

25-WORLD SHOWBIZ & ENTERTAINMENT BREAKING NEWS

Anti-Bush film tops Cannes awards. Director Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 has won the prestigious Palme d'Or best film award at the Cannes festival. It was the first documentary to win the top prize since Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World in 1956. The film received a 15-minute standing ovation when it was screened on Monday. Fahrenheit 9/11 explores the Iraq war and alleges connections between President George W Bush and top Saudi families, including the Bin Ladens. The documentary uses Moore's customary satirical style to accuse Mr Bush of stealing the presidential election in 2000, ignoring terrorism warnings before 11 September 2001 and fuelling fears of more attacks to secure Americans' support for the war in Iraq. "What have you done? I'm completely overwhelmed by this," Moore said in his acceptance speech...................................................................................................................................168-169

Shrek2: Computer animated sequel Shrek 2 has broken box office records in the US, taking $11.8m (£6.7m) in one day. It has scored the biggest midweek opening to date for an animated feature, beating the record set by Pokemon: The First Movie in 1999. A spokesperson for Dreamworks, which made the film, said the opening "exceeded all of our expectations". Shrek 2, which features the voices of Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz, is in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Unprecedented: The film is also set to break another record in the US over the weekend..................................169

Troy: In pictures: Troy's Cannes premiere...................................171

26-HOLLYWOOD FILE

Billion Dollar Women: THE ONE BILLION DOLLAR WOMEN. THE MOST EXPENSIVE STARS IN HOLLYWOOD. What so special about these women? Are they the most intelligent and captivating human beings in the world? NO! Have they contributed the most essential and the most needed help, knowledge and wisdom to the society and world of excellence, humanities and human science? NO! So why are they so expensive? Why they are making so much money,  millions and millions of Dollars, when so many talented artists, creative singers and entertainers, devoted teachers, academicians and much more intelligent, fascinating..................................................172-177

27-WOMEN AND BILLIONS