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Since Kate Riedl’s documentary “The Man Who Saved a Million Brains” aired on Australia’s ABC channel in 2005, the country has seen a huge spike—75 percent—in iodized salt sales. Riedl’s film chronicles Professor Cres Eastman’s fight against Iodine Deficiency Disorder, a disease that can cause retardation, deafness, and skeletal and superficial deformation. Riedl’s will be one of 15 contemporary documentaries screening in Cambridge this weekend as part of the United Nations Association Traveling Film...
Born in Siberia, Khromtchenko moved to Moscow as a young girl and graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in journalism. At 17 she became the youngest broadcaster for Channel 1 radio and television and went on to write for Russian Cosmopolitan and Elle before forming her own p.r. company, which helped launch brands like Gucci and Valentino in Russia. Because of her TV and radio career, Khromtchenko has become famous in Russia. But she says that now, in addition to editing the magazine, she's just a talking head: "If someone wants to know about fashion or beauty...
Finally, though, The War's power doesn't come from adding anything to WW II's vast historical record. It's what the series adds to the emotional record. We've seen the battle plans already on the History Channel, but through their interviews, Burns and Novick re-create the enormity of millions of young people literally preparing to die. "What we asked all the time was, What happened? and then, How did you feel?" says Novick. The answers make a much chronicled war fresh, real and heartbreaking--an elderly woman weeping like a child about being shipped...
...There had been in the last campaign tremendous energy for undergraduate financial aid,” Summers said. “I was trying to channel that energy into an even larger cause...
...financially, and that's why the government had to take them over, a move it would love to undo, he said. Peskov at least doesn't deny that new government-owned media hews closely to the administration's script. It's a natural state of affairs, he says. "Sky Channel never criticizes Rupert Murdoch," he said. "And ABC never criticizes Mickey Mouse." But he says that the smaller regional television stations that are independent are highly critical. "If you monitor that press, you will understand that this is the freest country in the world," he said, with a short laugh...