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...country's most popular reality police shows, which have been proliferating so rapidly that government censors in March barred 40% of applications for new programs based on police work. But in part because the censor?the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television?isn't powerful enough to block shows produced by the police, it had to settle for restrictions on those already on the air. The police-produced show "Zero Distance," an organized-crime expos?, is now broadcast after...
...breaks and has introduced other limitations on the private sector, particularly foreign companies. Under the terms of the Conoco deal, for example, the American company can raise its stake in Lukoil - but only to a ceiling of 20%, less than the 25% it needs to be able to block strategic company decisions. BP, by contrast, whose contract was signed eight months before Khodorkovsky's arrest, has a 50% share in its Russian joint venture. "That's a deal we won't see repeated," says Jonathan Stern of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. "The climate now is for strategic minority...
...markets to Africa's farmers. But I suggest they change their tune and come up with a hit demanding that the West drop its agricultural subsidies, cancel more debt and urge Africa's worst leaders to go. How about something like: "It's Christmastime/ There's no need to block trade/ At Christmastime/ We can buy African and banish farm aid/ And in our world of Western plenty/ We can spread our wealth around/ Throw out Africa's despots/ At Christmastime." Get 1.5 billion people singing along to that, and you could really make a difference in Africa...
...advantage, he said that “Fifty-five is better than fifty-one, but it’s not sixty.” What he is saying is that the Democrats still have one crucial check on the Republicans: the filibuster, which allows 40 senators to block a vote indefinitely. Thus, Republicans will be able to pass moderately conservative legislation and put moderately conservative judges on the bench, but radical conservatism will likely continue to be stayed by the threat of the Democratic filibuster. But as the Democrats only hold 44 seats, their hold on the filibuster is tenuous...
...Most of the town's 300 people are a red-dirt block away at the Pintupi Homelands Health Service, checking out their art movement's latest venture. Papunya Tula - a name suggested to Bardon by artist Charlie Tararu - is Pintupi for "honey ant meeting place," and on Nov. 11, a meeting place it is. A plane has descended on Kintore, and Pintupi elders mix with health officials, fine-art specialists and more camp dogs than you can poke a stick at. "What an amazing combination," notes Peter Toyne, the Northern Territory's Health Minister. "The most remote community in Australia...