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...became infected. Vampires were the Victorian’s perfect symbol for a threat against purity. With the advent of film, vampires made their transition from the page, starting with silent films and continuing all the way to movies like “Blade,” before the current boom. Until recently, even when poetic license was taken with the genre, the portrayal of vampires was relatively aligned with historical conceptions: vampires were strangely erotic, but always fringe and dangerous. In the last few years though, vampires have stood up from the ranks of common horror (aliens, sharks...
...beautiful ballad called ‘The Vegetable Medley,’” Amram says. “It might still. But it probably won’t.”Among those jokes that have found their way into the script, the writers’ current favorite involves General Dwight Supremacy, who hangs signs reading “Dwights Only” on everything. “Dwight Supremacy is how we skirt around the racism issue,” Amram says. “He wants segregation between Dwights and everyone else...
...reaction among the Swiss public to Gaddafi's idea of splitting up the country has been a mix of outrage and incredulity. "Even though Gaddafi is a leader of a country and the current head of the African Union, he loses credibility when he comes up with outrageous comments like that," says Daniel Warner, a political scientist at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. Others see irony in Gaddafi's comments. "It's a paradox that Gaddafi wants to dismantle Switzerland because, as he claims, it is not a homogenous country, while Libya is divided by a desert...
...Delta Air Lines and JAL's current partner American Airlines, which are looking to expand routes within the Asian market, have recently held talks regarding potential investment in JAL. A deal could be announced within weeks, but whatever it is, it will only be a partial solution. "The problem is that [JAL] is too big to sell and there's no one to buy," Hosoya says...
...investments, oil and energy sector, as well as the service sector, we were quite successful. Economic issues have never contributed to instability in Iran and never will. The minister of economy of the ninth government, which is the previous four years, was actually selected for the 10th government, the current government as well, and he received a very high vote of confidence by the parliament. There was in fact no vote against him even though the government itself, my administration, has some serious opponents with respect to other issues. The foundations of Iran's economy are in fact very solid...