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The Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) makes its impact each September by showcasing U.S. prestige product with Oscar-encrusted casts and international movies from world-class directors. It doesn't get much ink for its effort to promote Canadian movies, though heaven knows it's got a lot of them: 81...
First, the authors no longer assert that Israeli “citizenship is based on the principle of blood kinship,” a charge that had prompted Harvard’s Dershowitz to declare that the “mendacious emphasis on Jewish ‘blood?...
For those reasons, Sarkozy will need to reconcile his words and acts if he wants his next three months to be as successful as his first three. He'll also need to place less emphasis on grand movements across a broad spectrum and more on nailing down clear, lasting results...
Can anything be done to halt such excess? Keynes proposed taxing financial transactions to discourage speculation, an idea that remains popular in antiglobalization circles but has never gained traction with U.S. lawmakers. Shleifer favors protecting consumers from some financial-market excesses--via mortgage lending regulations, for example--but is dubious...
These days, choosing not to dye has become a statement rather than a casual stylistic choice. Thus the gray wars are a bit of a grownup replay of the freaks vs. squares and smart kids vs. populars from junior high and high school 40 years ago. "The emphasis in the...