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...Money and power are central to the row: Asterix comics sell roughly three million copies annually - more than 325 million have sold since the 1961 pilot - and generate sales of $14.8 million each year. Asterix has also inspired movie adaptations, collectible toys, and even a Paris-area theme park over the years...
...central event of Burma VJ is the 2007 uprising. "Film them! Film them all! So many! So, so many!" cries one protester into a DVB camera, which then pans upward from the crowded streets to show rooftops and balconies packed with more cheering Burmese. It's moving to watch, not least because we know how it all ended. Within days, perhaps a hundred or more people were killed by the junta and thousands arrested. Those carrying cameras were singled out. (See pictures of Burma's aftermath...
...Mexico Fewer Dollars Equal Fewer Pesos For the first time since the Mexican central bank started keeping track, remittances to the country fell in 2008, from $26.1 billion to $25.1 billion. After oil exports, money sent home from workers abroad--mostly from the U.S.--is the largest source of foreign income in Mexico. The central bank expects remittances to keep falling in 2009, thanks in part to layoffs in the U.S. construction sector; Mexico's overall GDP is also expected to shrink. A January report from the Pew Hispanic Center showed that while the same percentage of Latino immigrants...
...subject of his first hearing as chairman of the committee signals that in President Barack Obama's Washington at least, Gore's views on the severity of climate change and the need for action are gaining clout - and not just for environmental reasons. "Climate change will be increasingly central to our foreign policy," said Kerry. (Read "Obama Cleans Up After Bush...
...Pakistan, on the other hand, is keen to get Holbrooke involved in the Kashmir dispute, which it has traditionally held is central to its differences with India . President Asif Zardari, in an Op-Ed for the Washington Post, wrote that he hoped the Special Envoy would "work with India and Pakistan...to bring a just and reasonable resolution to [the Kashmir issue...