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...viewership estimated in the tens of millions and spanning all social strata from politicians to parking-lot attendants. The actors are ostensibly members of government from a parallel Indonesia - the "dreaming republic" of the show's title - where everything is the same apart from the spelling of leaders' names. Cast members always refer to Indonesia as "the neighboring country," introducing a modicum of libel defense that allows them to criticize the shortcomings of those who hold power, as well as talk about controversial issues from deforestation to illiteracy and corruption. "We are trying to let viewers know what is really...
...catered to. Half a dozen shops and hawkers' stalls sell all sorts of women's underwear in a back alley, away from prying looks. It doesn't seem to bother the shoppers that the salespeople are all men. But there are also carts hawking undies, where elderly grandmothers cast disapproving looks at young girls in short skirts while themselves shopping for lingerie in full public view...
...military in Iraq. Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner said that American military cooperation with Turkey comes through the U.S.'s European Command; American forces in Iraq are under a separate regional chain of command. Philip Reeker, the U.S. embassy's spokesman, stressed that the raids were "Turkish decisions." He cast the U.S. in the role of observer, saying that it would "continue to watch this situation closely." Over the weekend, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker said that defanging the PKK should be done in "a way that does not create problems of instability inside Iraq...
...they - Burton, screenwriter John Logan, the whole cast and crew - they've done it. This adaptation of the Hugh Wheeler libretto (from Christopher Bond's play) is both faithful and liberating. The story, of a bitter man in 19th century London who has lost his wife and child and determines to carve out his revenge, has never seemed so human or so bleak. It's no longer just a Guignol songfest, staring at its creatures, with fascination but not pity, from an Olympian distance above the cage in which they claw at one another. Inside this sarcophagus of a play...
Although the motion was quickly approved thanks to the government's wide majority, some opposition voices cast doubt on the conspiracy theory. Maria Estenssoro of the Civic Coalition said that "ranting at the empire is just a smokescreen. The problem isn't a trash operation from the U.S., the problem is the trash campaigns at home." Civic Coalition party leader Elisa Carrio, Fernandez's rival in October's presidential elections, said that "the United States is not responsible for the crimes of corruption committed by the governments of Venzuela and Argentina...