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...director Naomi Kawase, who was raised by her grandparents in the ancient capital of Nara, Shinto's nature worship is integral to her work - and she's not about to apologize for it. Kawase won last year's runner-up prize at the Cannes Film Festival for The Mourning Forest, which celebrates man's mystical relationship with nature. "Because of the circumstances of my childhood, I never fell in love with the West, like many other Japanese did," says Kawase, 39. "My inspiration comes from our traditional culture, in which everything, even a little clump of grass, is divine...
...came that Russian President Dmitri Medvedev had announced a pullback of Russian forces and an end to the bombing. It was news to the villagers, who had just watched their wheat crop engulfed in flames a few minutes earlier and who had spent the night before sheltering in the forest from Russian attacks. But a visitor from a nearby town insisted it was true...
...people may wish they could scatter their attention the way Warren does. He is the author of one of the world's best-selling books, The Purpose Driven Life, and the founding pastor of one of the country's largest churches, the 23,000-member Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. And on Aug. 16, he will play the role of national inquisitor in a "civil forum" featuring (consecutively, not in debate format) the two presumptive nominees for President, who will fly to Orange County, Calif., to be civilly grilled for an hour apiece. (See pictures of the 25 most...
...with ever greater numbers of pilgrims coming in (so far this year, over 500,000 pilgrims have already visited) the government reasoned that more temporary shelters were required. And so on May 26 the ruling Congress-led government of Jammu and Kashmir decided to divert 100 acres of forest land to erect such facilities for Hindu pilgrims...
...under the authority of the government-run Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board, the agency in charge of the shelters for pilgrims. Now, commentators see political opportunism at work across the political spectrum, not just the BJP. The move by the state's Congress government to allot 100 acres of forest land to the SASB, just months before elections due in October, was seen by many as aimed at attracting Hindu votes in the Hindu-majority Jammu part of the state. It clearly did not foresee the backlash. Meanwhile, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of secessionist leaders and parties...