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...week retrospective of the canon films, plus Cleese's A Fish Called Wanda and Gilliam's always-worth-reseeing Jabberwocky, Time Bandits and Brazil. True to the absurdist spirit of Python, a disclaimer on the Film Forum webpage reads: "SPAM? IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF HORMEL FOODS CORP. PYTHON AND ALOT ADAPTED FROM MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT LOGO. USED WITH PERMISSION...
...strong fundraising returns came amid fears that large donors would table their gifts in the wake of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ departure. Lawrence J. Ellison, chief executive of Oracle Corp., called off his plans to donate $115 million and create the Ellison Institute for World Health—a decision he attributed to Summers’ resignation. At least three other substantial gifts were cancelled, including $100 million from publisher and real-estate tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman, $100 million from former Harvard Corporation member Richard A. Smith ’46, and $75 million from banker David Rockefeller...
...recently as February 2005 Thaksin won a landslide re-election victory. But he was forced to dissolve parliament only a year later following mass demonstrations in Bangkok calling for him to step down, triggered by the controversial sale of his family company Shin Corp. to a group led by Singapore's Temasek Holdings. Since then, Thai politics have descended into high farce, culminating in an April snap election boycotted by the opposition and later invalidated by the courts. The election commissioners who oversaw this debacle refused to resign until they were briefly thrown in jail. A fresh ballot has been...
...Amid the diplomatic flurry, and as evidence emerged of a new government offensive in Darfur - Human Rights Watch says government planes indiscriminately bombed civilian-occupied villages in rebel-held areas last week - one powerful voice was noticeably silent: China's. Khartoum and Beijing are close. The China National Petroleum Corp. owns 40 percent - the largest single share - of the consortium that pumps some 330,000 barrels of oil a day from Sudan's oil fields. Beijing has blocked the threat of U.N. sanctions against Sudan's regime and protects it in other ways. But with the bodies piling...
Otten, now 40, was an assistant vice president at Mizuho Capital Markets Corp., working on the 80th floor of the south tower on Sept. 11, 2001. He now lives and works on Long Island...