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...local talent is a little less lustrous, but that actually proves the genius behind the festival. Co-founders Jane Camens and Nury Vittachi, both literary-minded journalists, envisioned cosmopolitan Hong Kong as the perfect center in which to showcase "great writing with Asian roots," a category that can include just about anything with a gloss of soy sauce: expats writing Asia-based historical fiction, hyphenated Asians getting back to their roots, nonfiction writers discovering the region. Not to mention the proliferating literary output from the other side of the border with mainland China. Asian books are hot in the literary...
Since 1990, Saddam has faced U.N. sanctions designed to control all of Iraq's foreign trade. In response, he has demonstrated a genius for milking cash from the very system meant to squeeze him dry. He has set up a network--call it Saddam Inc.--that involves smuggling, kickbacks and other scams that rack up steady profits year after year...
...time, the band has packed up everything once more and moved to LA. They hooked up with producer Josh Abrahams, whose genius lies behind the success of Korn, Limp Bizkit and Staind, and the result is Pacifier, their U.S. debut...
...investigations of familiar places and attention to the hidden details of what is routine not only help us understand the realities of our daily lives but also open up “an immense and unexpected field of action.” It was Fred Rogers’ genius to recognize that children have a real capacity to explore the mundane, discovering the strange and wondrous in the familiar...
...thousand actors. Thirty-five rooms of The Hermitage museum. One single 95-minute, continuous, unedited, technologically and artistically miraculous Steady-Cam shot. And a mad genius for a director, bent on making—and remaking—Russian history. Were it not so exquisitely beautiful, Russian Ark, the latest film from Russian director Alexander Sokurov, might pale in comparison to the epic story of its own production...