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When a sleek and derisive colleague named Maxine (Catherine Keener) rebuffs his advances and mocks his art, Craig argues passionately on behalf of his puppets: He says that everyone longs to be inside someone else's head.
Europe's Monday papers were generally dominated, however, by the results of the weekend's elections for the European Parliament in Strasbourg that, on very low voter turnouts throughout Western Europe, delivered heavy rebuffs to both Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain.
But, explains the paper, the board has an advisory role only, and implementation must be carried out by the FAA, which often rebuffs the NTSB.