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Both Afghan police and Western observers describe a kind of pyramid scheme of corruption that goes to the top of the Afghan government. "It's like a feudal system," says Captain David Panian, a U.S. reservist now training Afghan Police in Western Afghanistan. "The baron pays the count, the count pays the duke, the duke pays the king. So if you are Joe Chief of Bala Beluk, in order to maintain your job you have to give X amount to the provincial guy, and he has got to give it to the regional...
...result of a bad download; you’re watching “Lossless #1,” the first piece in the fall exhibition Lossless at the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery. Lossless is a collection of five deconstructed and digitally reworked films by artists Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin. Inspired by the contemporary trend of file sharing, Baron and Goodwin altered the films by manipulating the technology behind them. Interruption of data streaming, the removal of basic information, and other digital methods allow the artists to dematerialize existing films into confusing and surprising visual commentaries. More...
Considered the ultimate boy's toy, the Ferrari represents the pinnacle of success, for those willing to pay the price. It has been a collector's item for wealthy Italians like Gianni Agnelli and Roberto Rossellini and European royalty such as Baron de Rothschild and the Aga Khan. After Hollywood gave it a starring role in The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968, a legion of iconic owners, including Dean Martin, Elvis Presley and Steve McQueen, followed...
Bruno, a.k.a. Borat, a.k.a. SACHA BARON COHEN, storms Milan catwalk...
Over the last 30 years, David Cronenberg, director of such films as Scanners (1981), Dead Ringers (1988) and A History of Violence (2005), has been called the "King of Venereal Horror" and the "Baron of Blood." But more and more, he's being recognized as something else: a thinking man's filmmaker. A diehard existentialist, Cronenberg has infused philosophy into his films over the years; some critics even called his 1986 blockbuster The Fly an inspired allegory for the AIDS epidemic. And if anyone still doubted his high-culture credibility, now Cronenberg is tackling the medium of Mozart...