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...most notably Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace laureate and leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), which won a landslide victory in the 1990 general election but was prevented by the junta from assuming power. Many hoped Suu Kyi would be released from house arrest to attend the event, but the generals chose to take their own idiosyncratic approach to democracy: keeping her locked up, while also shuttering her party's branch offices. As a result, the NLD has sent no delegates to the convention, reinforcing the impression that the conference is little more than a political...
...gunmen marked each other's doctors and lawyers for assassination. President Pervez Musharraf waved off calls for the federal government to step in to curtail further bloodshed, saying he would refrain from "panic reactions." Fearing more attacks, a banker says he won't let his boys attend Friday sermons: "It's better to miss your prayers than to lose...
...Theatre in London and has already been set for a Broadway production. By Bennett standards, that's almost gaudy. In a British grammar school, perhaps 20 years ago, eight bright lads have passed their A-level exams and are now studying for tests that will determine which university they attend. Oxford or Cambridge would be lovely, the school's headmaster (Clive Merrison) believes. To help get his sixth-formers into one of the posh places, he hires Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore), a clever young man just down from university, to help the boys impress their imminent inquisitors. Say the unexpected...
Proctors must attend a mandatory orientation where they go over the rules outlined in the handbook for proctors, which contains the text read out at the beginning of each exam...
...says Jim Gianopulos, chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment. "But it's still a movie. [The environmentalists] came to us early on, and we welcomed their interest. But this is a movie, not a political agenda." Nevertheless, Fox screened the movie early for Gore, and Emmerich says he plans to attend the MoveOn.org event. Is the film's political angle raising any hackles within a notoriously conservative corporation? Gianopulos laughs. "That is so ludicrous. We are a movie studio. The only call I'll get is to find out how big the gross is opening weekend...