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...Sita ran into a $250,000 royalty bill for the circa-1930 recording that supplied the blues. Now some sort of deal has been arranged, and it will open at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago after the festival. Nothing could have been a box office success, I believe, but its distributor went belly-up in the economic downturn. It will be released on DVD in later April...
...Mexico and the United States. He pointed to democracy in eliminating the violence and drug wars ravaging Mexico. “How you punish and avoid corruption is the real question. Can democracy limit corruption?” Fuentes asked. As he called for a “new deal for Mexico” and a social contract that would renew the nation and clear up corruption. Fuentes emphasized that literature and education were essential in this push for progress. Students who attended the discussion agreed with Fuentes’ statement on the role of art in politics...
...been asked to participate in their commencement—albeit in an unexpected way—still generated excitement among the student body. “It’s kind of weird, but she’s solicitor general now, so that’s a big deal,” said third-year Law School student Todd M. Blodgett, who called Kagan one of the best professors he had encountered in his time at Harvard. And while a few students admitted they had hoped for a “celebrity” after Secretary of Energy Steven...
...play this semester,’ people would say, ‘Whoa, that’s fantastic, that’s so cool.’ Were I to say that back in high school people would be like, ‘Oh, big deal.’” Witt laughs, “It’s funny to compare the two worlds, one world turned on its head...
...former CIA officer who was part of the discussions that led to the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah in 2002 told me that much of CIA management was dead set against the agency taking on the task. Among other objections, they felt that the military was better equipped to deal with interrogating prisoners of war; the military, after all, had its own interrogation school. But, as the message came down, then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, apparently aware of the potential political firestorm that would result, had grown nervous about the Pentagon's initial involvement...