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...Harvie's existential angst, it's all about Adam. "I've struggled with the meaning of life over the years," admits Elliot, who dropped out of graphic-design school to sell T shirts for five years at the St. Kilda markets. Then, like Harvie, he had a carpe diem call - and seized the day by enrolling in film at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1996. (Elliott's friend and former classmate Glendyn Ivin took out the Palme d'Or for short film at Cannes last year with another deadpan tale about a suburban misfit, Cracker...
...openly asking how far the corruption went and who might be the next government figure to be arrested. After 6 months of that, the government decided that openness about official corruption might not be in the Party's best interest. On June 2002, Vietnam's ideology chairman, Nguyen Khoa Diem, ordered newspapers to tone it down. "They're afraid people are losing their faith in the government," explains a Vietnamese journalist...
According to an e-mail sent to BIDMC employees on Wednesday, the debt reduction and other improvements have resulted in decreasing the medical center’s overall per-diem cost of serving a patient by about 15 percent in the two years...
...NGUYEN VAN CARDINAL THUAN, 74, Vietnamese clergyman who spent his 13-year imprisonment under the communist regime emulating St. Paul by smuggling out messages to his followers and evangelizing his jailers; in Vatican City. Born into a prominent Catholic family?his uncle was former South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem?Thuan became Bishop of Nha Trang in 1967. Shortly after his appointment as Archbishop of Saigon in 1975 the city fell to the communists, who arrested Thuan as a subversive and imprisoned him without trial. He was expelled from Vietnam in 1991 and spent the rest of his life...
...Hemingway had met Robert Twigger on the road, he would probably have beaten him up and taken his per diem. The shy, scholarly Twigger's The Extinction Club (William Morrow; 222 pages) is about the elusive Pere David's deer, an anatomical cocktail of an animal with backward-facing horns, a long, thick camel neck and a donkey's tail. For centuries the only Pere David's in the world lived in a walled park outside Beijing, where they were hunted exclusively by the Emperor of China, until an enterprising missionary (the eponymous Pere) smuggled a few specimens...