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...least Tajikistan is a nation, unlike Palestine. As director Elia Suleiman says, "It's a concept, not a country." Most people would not guess that Palestine had even one filmmaker; if you asked them to define "Palestinian film," they'd say it was newsreel footage of a suicide bomber. And don't even ask about a Palestinian sense of humor. Yet Suleiman's Divine Intervention, which won a jury prize, was one of the most sophisticated and, in its dark way, funniest films at Cannes...
...It’s a speech about the privileged opportunities and responsibilities we have as graduates,” he said, “and about how these are enunciated in both the Islamic concept of jihad and in American ideals...
...walkout in 1964 in support of a sacked colleague. "It was the fight for the fairness of things that got to me," Ferguson later told an interviewer. Sacked, humiliated or verbally roasted players and outmaneuvered club directors appear at regular intervals in The Boss to wonder at his concept of fairness. Yet at the heart of Ferguson's managerial success lies the fierce loyalty he evokes in his clubmates and which he repays with quiet encouragement and - ever the union man - a refusal to rebuke his players publicly for their misdemeanors on the pitch. Perhaps the most telling influence...
...federal appeals court ruling that upheld the legality of the University of Michigan’s Law School’s admissions policy, which seeks to admit a “critical mass” of minority students. They have failed, however, to see that the concept of a “critical mass” is effectively a quota system—it implies a minimum acceptable level of people, even if it is not specific...
...It’s a speech about the privileged opportunities and responsibilities we have as graduates...and about how these are enunciated in both the Islamic concept of jihad and in American ideals,” Yasin said...