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...processing this directive] captive by Palestinian militants since June 25, she is instantly empathetic. "We know Israelis love their children just as we do," she says softly. The Shalit family's love for Gilad is indeed palpable in the northern Israeli town of Hila, where his parents, Noam and Aviva, live and where a banner hangs reading gilad: we are waiting for you at home. Noam, a compact man with close-cropped white hair and blue eyes, has no sympathy for the actions of the militants of Hamas or the Popular Resistance Committee, but he is keenly aware that...
...funeral of Dawn Weiner, the protagonist of “Dollhouse,” who has killed herself, because she couldn’t stand the nature of the world. The rest of the film traces the bizarre story of Dawn’s cousin, the palindromically named Aviva, as she wishes for “lots and lots of babies,” has sex with a horny family friend, and is forced into an abortion by her well-meaning mother (“Sea of Love” femme fatale Ellen Barkin in a strong return...
...Aviva “is suspended between the pro-choice family that gives no choice and the pro-life family that kills.” Solondz recognizes that “it’s certainly my most politically charged, I think morally complicated movie that I’ve made...
...sense, any one of us in the audience could play an episode in this young innocent’s life story,” Solondz continues. “The hope is that the cumulative effect of all these different shapes and sizes of Aviva would be greater in some sense than if I had but used...
...which say the dam will destroy the livelihoods of thousands and do untold damage to rivers and their fish populations, while offering no guarantee that the revenue will improve people's lives. "Laos has a track record of poorly-managed projects that create more poverty than they solve," says Aviva Imhof, campaign director of International Rivers Network, which is based in Berkeley, California. Imhof has tracked the project for a decade and, together with the Canada-based Probe International, led a global campaign to have it halted. "Laos is repeatedly being rewarded for its failure," says Probe's policy director...