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...from Indian fundamentalists. And I'm pleased that The Lives of Others was cited: partly because it's a smartly pensive spy thriller, partly because this means that some Generation Why cutie will have to stand on the Kodak Theatre stage and try to enunciate the director's name: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. (Paging Gov. Schwarzenegger?) But I chose Pan's Labyrinth as my film of the year, so I have to go with that...
...week. When they do, it feels like Christmas - mail from home is the only thing that keeps the soldiers at Maizan going. Today's haul saw troops whooping over new Sony Playstations, games, Oreos, cigarettes, Cheese Whiz and even a flea collar for Beebe, the camp dog. Sergeant Florian Barrie, from Watertown, New York, walked off with three cases of Mountain Dew sent by his mom and a friend. Expensive? Yes, but it's these little things that make life bearable in Maizan...
...Others, which swept the prestigious Lola German Film Awards this month in Berlin, is going strong at the German box office with its story of a successful stage actress whose life is destroyed by a lecherous Culture Minister and the Stasi. The director of The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 33, says he did not set out to make a political point but wanted to personalize the period. "Cinema is a good barometer to show what is going on in a country," Von Donnersmarck told Time. His film is being heralded as the first major feature to examine...
...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 at the prestigious L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales: "Maybe you can talk about labor flexibility in England or America, where there are lots of jobs. But not here. France wants no part in a race to the bottom." Neither young man seemed...
...chairs--at the shields of riot police. A Mercedes was flipped over, and a Renault set alight; Minis were tossed about like toys. THE BOURGEOISIE TO THE GULAG! read a graffito. "Maybe you can talk about labor flexibility in England or America, where there are lots of jobs," says Florian Louis, 22, a history student in Paris, "but not here. France wants no part in a race to the bottom...