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...industry. Though his country's art house élite despises his commercial movies, he can expect a warm welcome this year from a film community that has matured and broadened during his 20-year absence. German film is more popular than at any time in recent memory. Homegrown movies broke records in German cinemas in 2004, taking nearly 25% of tickets sold, up from 17.5% the year before, according to spio, a trade group. And following the surprise international success in 2003 of the east German comedy Goodbye, Lenin!, German-language films have gained wider European and U.S. distribution...
Then there is the illusion that the occupation is making Iraqis safer. Or that “we broke it, so we own it.” Yes, we broke it. But the fact that we were the ones who broke it does not inspire much confidence in our ability...
Frustrations boiled over as the second frame wound down, when a shoving match evolved into an all-out melee at the Union end of the ice. Players scuffled all around Mayotte’s goalmouth, and after several minutes of untangling the pile of bodies, when the referees had broke up the dozen or so skaters, the ice was strewn with broken sticks and lost gloves...
Another standout was the 4-by-400 meter relay team, consisting of freshmen Chidimma Kalu and Julia Rozier and seniors Vicky Henderson and Thompson. The relay broke four minutes for the first time this season with a time...
...tried to fight back is Antonio Bassolino, Governor of the Campania region. When he was mayor of Naples in the 1990s, Bassolino led a campaign cracking down on small-time contraband cigarette vendors. Recalling a similar outbreak of bloodshed over contraband traffic in 1997, he says, "We broke a taboo back then by insisting that the guy selling cigarettes on the street corner wasn't some poor soul, but a sentry for the Camorra." The current violence, he thinks, is a call to strengthen Italy's justice system. Drug dealers "should know they risk serving real time," he says...