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...young - those most in need of a leg up - heaped scorn on a law intended to help them. Serbian-born Zeljko Stojanovic, 19, joined the march with fellow high school students of foreign origin from the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis. "They want to close off immigration and doom young people to the lousy jobs nobody else will take," said Stojanovic, who wants to be an auto mechanic. "We're the ones who'll suffer if the bosses can just fire people without cause." Privileged university students saw matters no differently. Said Florian Louis, 22, a history student...
Gibson is betting the chase will feel even hairier thanks to a new digital camera system, Panavision's Genesis, that yields a "tremendous sensation of velocity," says cinematographer Dean Semler, who won an Oscar for Dances with Wolves. All the doom and zoom sound fun, but the ancient Maya are also called the Greeks of the New World--they invented the concept of zero, built astonishing cities and used a more complex calendar than ours. Gibson insists the glory gets its close-ups too. Says Richard Hansen, a Maya scholar at Idaho State University, head of the Mirador Basin Project...
...Most current parents of young children don ' t remember that the PG-13 marker was invented in response to an outcry from parents after 1984' s " Gremlins " and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom " received PG rather than R ratings. The latter film features a scene in which the villain removes a victim' s beating heart, and "Gremlins " churned its pint size villains in blenders. So Johnny' s mom and I talked about the extraordinary imagination of children and the difficulty of those same imaginations to turn off disturbing images when they get tired. I suggested that Johnny...
...breed of smarter and faster films crashed the scene: the independents. Their pint-sized budgets and rapid production cycles made them worthy competition for the lumbering blockbusters. As quickly as it began, the age of the blockbusters came to an end. Or so Hollywood’s prophets of doom and gloom would have you believe...
...MARC FABER Emerging-markets expert and publisher of the monthly investment newsletter The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report Thaksin has the support of the rural population, but the urban population in Bangkok is strongly opposed to him, especially the intellectuals. They argue that he is buying votes in the countryside, which is to some extent true. Voters in the countryside are shipped to rallies in buses and given free food. But this isn't something unique to Thailand or Thaksin by any means. It is the dark side of democracy. Many other politicians all over the world do the same thing...