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...identity: Michael Haneke's Hidden and Cronenberg's A History of Violence. One critic, looking to the past two years, when the Palme winners Elephant and Fahrenheit 9/11 were both critical of American society, suggests that the Palme might go to Lars Von Trier's Manderlay, a parable of freed slaves reluctant to give up their old servitude. Hmmm... we wonder what Toni Morrison thinks of that film...
...work again has the redheaded Grace as its focus. (There she was played by Nicole Kidman, here by Ron Howard's daughter.) She comes to Manderlay, a plantation that has only now, 70 years after the Civil War, with the death of its owner Mam (Lauren Bacall), freed its slaves. But do they want to be free, to the extent that blacks could be free in the 1930s South? Or are they so comfortable in their old roles on the plantation, as defined in the elaborate rules of hierarchy and behavior known as Mam's Law, that the attempts...
...President Islam Karimov sent in the armor. Communications with Andijan were cut; foreign TV news broadcasts to Uzbekistan, including from Russia, were replaced with light entertainment. The insurrection started when a group of armed men raided a local military base for weapons, then hit the local jail. There they freed inmates, including 23 well-known local businessmen accused of belonging to Akromiya, an offshoot of the banned Islamist party Hizb ut Tahrir. The men, who denied charges of extremism, quickly emerged as leaders of the revolt. Addressing the nation Saturday, Karimov said the rebels were Islamic extremists. Ten policemen...
...this year marks a major milestone for Feldstein. Last month, he announced that he would turn over the reins of Ec10 to Freed Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw...
Watson’s history with the course could prove useful as it is handed over to Freed Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw next year...