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...Rebecca is one of a number of Criterion titles that the company no longer produces, frequently because their licensing agreement with the studio has expired. But it can still be tracked down from on-line retailers, and of course on eBay, where there's a lively trade in discontinued Criterion titles like Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo. And anyway, to the real collector, scarcity is catnip...
...This was July 1986, and the Reagan Administration's Middle East policy was in shreds. The cornerstone of that policy, the May 17th Agreement, which was supposed to bring peace to Lebanon and Lebanon's recognition of Israel, was clinically dead. The CIA's chief in Beirut had been murdered the year before. Iranian-backed groups were holding dozens of American hostages. It was hard to imagine things getting worse. They did. Four months later the Iran-contra scandal broke...
...Another casualty may have been the proposed unity government agreement between the Fatah organization of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Islamist militants of Hamas, led by Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. Following the shelling, the two sides broke off talks to form a technocrat-led coalition government that would temper Hamas's militancy and allow international donors to lift their embargo on funds and most aid to the Palestinian territories...
...town, promoting his debut album, Playing With Fire, and surprisingly reflective single, America's Most Hated. Spears has requested custody of the couple's two sons, one-year old Sean Preston and two-month old Jayden James, with visitation rights for Federline. The couple signed a pre-nuptial agreement (thanks, Mama Spears!), and so divvying up the singer's bubble-gum-pop millions should not be an issue...
...only because it is incapable of preventing wars, as Krauthammer pointed out, but also because it has become an ideological bureaucracy that regards all cultural values as equal. The U.N. has allowed Islamic member states to maintain Shari'a laws, which violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an agreement designed to promote gender equality and freedom of expression. While Islamic fundamentalists intimidate the West by manufacturing outrage against novels, cartoons, lectures, essays and theater productions, the U.N. complies with Muslim prohibitions against speaking freely about Islam. The freedom to think and express oneself - and even mock authority figures...