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...Director, to John Ford's How Green Was My Valley, a poignant evocation of a Welsh mining town. Fine, honorable, fully worthy. The film it beat: Citizen Kane. Who needs all those low-angle shots, the deep-focus cinematography, the oblique, multifaceted view of a powerful publisher? Those aren't innovations; they're ostentations - cinematic showing off. Thus the Academy blew its chance to give due homage to what is still considered the greatest American movie. (See the top 10 Oscar-nomination snubs...
...telling realization: "Okay, I hate the Jews but I can live with them." As Sacco tells TIME, "This was a strange and almost hopeful moment - that people who didn't like each other could still live side by side." Most of all, says Sacco, "You meet many people who aren't caught up in rage and anger, they just want a normal life." And it is these ordinary people of Gaza - teachers, merchants and family men - all trying to survive in the midst of the lopsided battle between Palestinian jihadis and the Israeli army, that Sacco brings indelibly to life...
...often think of conservation in terms of its costs rather than its value, and regard manufactured goods in terms of value rather than their environmental costs. Says Barbier: "When we incorporate the services of ecosystems we may start to think: maybe the costs of maintaining [the integrity of] ecosystems aren't that high compared with the benefits. Maybe the gains we get out of converting nature into commodities are not so large in comparison. The point is that we don't see that tradeoff until we go out and measure that value...
...rubbing their hands at the sales boost they should get from the euro's 10% decline against the greenback in recent weeks - a slide that may not yet be over. "After so much protest about the strong euro, I know there are big French exporters out there who aren't unhappy seeing it where it is now," French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde told Europe 1 radio in late February, just days before the euro's exchange rate to the dollar dropped another cent, to a nine-month...
...This is about defending life and we aren't going to change one comma of this decree," said Bolivia's Minister of Government Sacha Llorenti after the transport workers announced their strike. Ground transportation in Bolivia is covered by collectives and private companies who hire drivers to operate minibuses (each capable of carrying 14 passengers) and buses for transport within and between the country's villages and cities. These tens of thousands of drivers and vehicle owners were outraged by Morales' decision (previously, the penalties were imposed on a three-strikes-and-you're-out system). These transportistas, as they...