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...condemns Israel for jay-walking, but doesn’t condemn other countries for murder,” he said...
...film distributor, told The Guardian that although remake deals include distribution rights, many of the originals never make it into stores. “It’s an insurance policy,” he explained, that allows studios to avoid comparison with the originals. While American businesses condemn their Asian imitators for costing them lost revenue, they’re slamming the door in the face of the original filmmakers...
...negotiates with the Spanish and French states on disarmament, prisoners and victims of violence. He hasn't mentioned olive branches since this month's bombings. The Socialist government in Madrid has rejected Otegi's notion that negotiations can begin without a renunciation of violence from ETA. Yet Basques who condemn ETA don't believe these bombings were meant to scupper talks. Rather, they were a way of keeping the radical base loyal while inching toward negotiations. "I'm convinced that ETA and Batasuna are in agreement over the proposal made [by Otegi]," says Alberto Surio, a political commentator...
...Indeed, North Korea's on-again-off-again economic reforms may be sparking some of the speculation regarding Kim's status. North Korea can't condemn capitalism and still allow increasingly open markets without overhauling its ideology and propaganda. China's economic reforms, begun 25 years ago, coincided with the demise of Mao Zedong's cult of personality. It makes sense that Pyongyang, too, will begin a process of change by lowering Kim's profile. Professor Ruediger Frank, a North Korea specialist at the University of Vienna, visited Pyongyang in September and for the first time noticed that portraits...
...true that films are more sex-obsessed these days. All of pop culture is. Americans listen to Howard Stern, giggle over Janet Jackson, collect unrated DVD editions of the American Pie movies, gossip about celebrities' dirty secrets. We ogle (and then condemn) the dropping of a towel on a Monday Night Football teaser, leaf through Jenna Jameson's How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, log onto the Internet and bathe in all that warm cyberswill. But all this is essentially kid stuff, somewhere between adolescent and infantile in its voyeuristic avidity. It codifies the randy talk...