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...With cheaper production, location and labor costs, films can be made for less in Asia. But in strategic terms, the Weinsteins may also be looking to stake a claim on the market of Asia's movie viewers, which has become the world's fastest growing. Ten years ago, the North American takings of U.S. film companies outpaced international earnings. "That's now absolutely shifted," says TWC co-president Michael Cole, who will shuttle between Hollywood and the fund office in Hong Kong. PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that Asia's film industry will increase by 6% annually, reaching $104 billion...
...wife and their two sons settled at the time in Portlaoise to get away from Dublin's hustle and bustle. Although Ireland eventually rejected their bid for asylum, by then Adebari had a third son, born in Ireland; at the time it was enough for the family to claim residency rights, which would no longer be the case today...
...Stanford psychologist Leon Festinger famously used the term cognitive dissonance to describe the discomfort we feel when our behaviors don't align with our beliefs. Festinger found that people will go to great lengths to reduce dissonance. In one well-known experiment, those who had been asked to falsely claim that a boring task--placing spools on a tray, for instance--was fun were later found to have persuaded themselves that the task really was fun. They had crossed over from hypocrisy to something more pathetic: self-deception. In this light, getting married, having kids and advancing conservatism looks more...
Were you ever worried about conspiracy theorists who claim the moon landing was fake? -Ben Gray, PERTH, AUSTRALIAI was not concerned, but I lost my patience once and socked a guy, which created great publicity and cost me some legal fees. You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention...
...Emergency Motion for the Stay of Extradition reads in part: "In an effort to prevent General Noriega's lawyers from obtaining the evidence necessary to prove this claim, as well as further litigating his rights under the Geneva Convention, the United States intends to release General Noriega from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons tomorrow at midnight, three days ahead of his scheduled September 9, 2007 parole date. No doubt the United States has determined that the best means of ending this controversy is to whisk the General away under the cover of darkness...