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...remember when Mom first gave you the keys to her car? You were so jittery you probably couldn?t tell she was nervous too. And it?s the same now. Recognize we all get hesitant at this point. Don?t be afraid to take the wheel and go where you need...
...supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vetoed Ahmadinejad's decree, reinstating the ban that keeps women away from football matches. Nevertheless, there are signs that making movies in Iran could be getting a little bit easier. "Because the former government, under President Mohammed Khatami, was moderate, it was always afraid of upsetting the conservatives," says Panahi. "Now that the conservatives are running the government, they have nobody to answer to. So they should be more willing to give us permission to make and show these sorts of films." The glimmerings of openness have surprised other local filmmakers who expected...
...Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages. And now, you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep...
...includes drug trafficking, armed robbery and kidnapping, said Renato Simoes, a human rights expert who has followed the rise of the group. "I think it's a power struggle," said Simoes, a Sao Paulo state congressman who serves on the state's Human Rights Commission. Whatever happens, Paulistas are afraid, and with good reason. Marcola, Macaroni and Starfruit are the ones calling the shots, and few people trust authorities to keep them safe...
Copyright holders are afraid of computers becoming copy machines, phone companies are concerned that Google is using their lines for its own profits, and even the government has worried that encryption technology might someday endanger its ability to enforce the law. In each case a suggestion has been made that, through rules or fines, makes invention expensive, creating long term costs that are impossible to foresee but potentially disastrous...