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...Borsellino, 60, the sister of Paolo Borsellino, a prominent magistrate who was killed by the Mafia in 1992 when his parked car was blown to pieces. The slaying of Borsellino and his five bodyguards came just three months after his friend and prosecutor colleague Giovanni Falcone met the same fate on a highway bridge near the Palermo airport (now named Falcone-Borsellino, like so many streets and piazzas across Sicily...
...make films, first, for Iranians. This is their problem, so I want to show it to them." So far, he hasn't been able to. All of Panahi's films, including Offside, have been banned from public theaters in Iran. Denied an audience at home, Offside's fate is that of many Iranian films when they dare to question the status quo: it has become a hit on the international festival circuit and in Western art-house cinemas. But a funny thing happened on the way to the foreign box office. Offside was granted a screening at this year...
...otherwise. I didn't take part in the protests, and I wanted classes to start again, so I was grieved to see how the media lumped students together with destructive demonstrators. Necessary reforms may be forestalled again if French officials let a minority of students and unionists decide the fate of legislation. Today people react to policy changes with sensational demonstrations, and politicians bow to the pressure for fear of losing in the next elections. Pauline Gastaldi Nice, France Thank you for your very friendly and optimistic cover reporting on the French government's efforts at reform in the face...
...Wagoner, the next 18 months will define his stewardship, if not GM's future. GM, Delphi and the U.A.W. are locked in a complex feud over how to restructure the partsmaker, whose fate is tied to the automaker's. GM has agreed to take back as many as 5,000 Delphi workers, and thousands more are being offered buyouts. But Delphi chief Robert (Steve) Miller has asked the bankruptcy court for permission to void labor contracts, which would allow him to slash wages if the unions won't concede--a move that could spark a strike. He also wants more...
...make every day one for which we should be grateful. But humans are not meant to live 90-plus years, nor are we meant to violate our bodies with stainless steel, latex and pharmaceuticals in the hope of fulfilling aspirations to immortality. Some price must be paid for defying fate, nature and God. The sooner we accept that bad things will happen despite the excellent care we receive, the sooner we will appreciate that we live longer, more comfortably and, dare I say, more happily than any previous generation. TOM PALUCH, M.D. San Diego