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...classical Japanese film, he depicted resilient men and women who guard their dignity even amid brutal conditions. In 1983's The Ballad of Narayama, one of two Imamura films to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, residents of a mythic 19th century village struggle with an edict requiring them to abandon their elders to die on a mountain. "I want to make messy, really human, unsettling films," he said...
...state to increase its spending on education by about $150 million this year, she persuaded moderates to join her in a compromise plan to comply with the decision. That deal left conservatives without the votes to push through a constitutional amendment they sought to effectively overrule the court's edict. To get G.O.P. backing for her proposals, she has appointed several Republicans to her cabinet, including former Governor Mike Hayden, who serves as secretary of wildlife and parks...
...Haan said. This year’s increased involvement by Harvard College comes as Yale tightens the reins on the weekend’s revelry. Last week, Yale announced that on-campus parties with more than 20 students will be prohibited the night before The Game by edict of the Yale Council of Masters. The masters cited concerns about property damage as the reason for the new measures. Additionally, Yale announced that new tailgate rules will be in effect for this year’s game day, ending the tailgates at the end of halftime and banning drinking games...
...victims were boys--the church seemed poised to carry out a blanket ban on admitting homosexuals, even celibate gays, to its seminaries. Italian newspapers, however, are now reporting that Pope Benedict XVI had signed a somewhat less extreme "instruction." (See accompanying story.) But while awaiting that edict, the psychologists like Plante, who (among other things) help determine whether prospective seminarians are gay, have been drawn into a debate about that particular aspect of their job. Predominantly Catholic but not necessarily ordained, most of these psychologists are quite comfortable with the notion of celibate gay priests. And most are quick...
...branded a traitor and the leader of a conspiracy to demonize her own country - a group of legislators even called for a national referendum to stop her from working in Serbia, while others wanted her locked up in a mental hospital. A scheduled TV appearance in Kikinda drew an edict from the mayor barring her from entering the provincial town, and when she ignored that she was kept off the air by a mysterious power failure in the town that lasted until she left...