COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.
ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It’s about 8 percent.
COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?
ABBOTT: No, that’s 16 percent.
COSTELLO: You just said 8 percent.
ABBOTT: 8 percent unemployed.
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Director stirs up fest with Nazi comments
CANNES, France (Reuters) – Danish director Lars Von Trier’s comments on Wednesday at a press conference in Cannes at which he jokingly declared himself a Nazi caused consternation at the film festival and offense among Jewish groups.
The Danish maverick is at the annual film festival with his competition film “Melancholia,” a grand cinematic statement on life, death and the universe which wowed a packed audience [...]