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...Fifty years later, the people of Yirrkala revived the tradition for a historic land claim in Australia's federal parliament, with the so-called "bark petition"; one of its authors was Yunupingu's father, Munggurruwuy. In humble ocher on bark, it demonstrated Aboriginal art's importance as a cultural document, and its power to change lives...
Iraqi-Canadian photographer Farah Nosh documented the life of her extended family in Baghdad during a particularly turbulent stretch. In February and March, as the country slid toward civil war, most of the family remained indoors, imprisoned by fear. Nosh's photographs document the daily struggle to block out the violence. Sometimes the carnage seemed a world away; at other times it was all too close. After a roadside bomb went off near the house, family members got a ringside view of smoke and pandemonium from their window...
...What we have in this film, essentially, is a portrait of man hard at work (at age 77 incidentally), and that, these days, is a good (and rare) thing. Ask a man what he does and how he obsessively does it and you almost invariably get a fascinating document. For eventually we define ourselves by what we do, not by what we think we?re doing or what other people think we may be up to. In architecture, as in every thing else, the making is everything. And this relatively short, elegantly shot and edited film, makes us privy...
...most notably Indian casinos. Federal investigators already have plea agreements with Abramoff and two other colleagues alleging Ney participated in a bribery scheme whereby the Congressman performed official acts in exchange for gifts. First on the list of "things of value," the Justice Department said in the criminal information document it released as part of the Volz plea agreement this week, was the Scotland trip...
...second document, written by a top Iranian official and given to TIME just before Ahmadinejad's letter was made public, offers a more concrete foundation for negotiations to resolve the nuclear impasse. In the two-page memorandum, intended for publication in the West, Hassan Rohani,representative of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, on the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and Iran's former top nuclear negotiator, defends Iran's nuclear posture, decries American bullying, and puts forward a plan to remove the nuclear issue from the U.N. Security Council and return it to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA...