Following Woody Allen on a 1996 concert tour through Europe with his New Orleans-style jazz band, the documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple touchingly reveals the inextricable unity of the man and his movie persona and suggests the psychic conflicts at the heart of his great films.

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And the uncertainty is spiking the efforts of Tendai Biti, the MDC man who is the unity government's finance minister, to secure the foreign cash the country sorely needs to recover from Mr Mugabe's ruination of the economy.

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There have been calls for a government of national unity to replace the one-man show that currently runs, or rather does not run, things in the Palestinian areas.

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