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...negative press affects their personal relationship, she answered that it's easy to ignore "if you know that what you're doing is the right thing." That strikes me as revealing either terrible naiveté or a stubborn sense of entitlement. Not only has this self-righteous thinking gotten the U.S. into a no-win war, but it has also stripped us of constitutional rights, including the right to privacy. Perhaps doing the right thing would involve soul searching - and listening to the constituency on a few issues. Karole Scott, Cocoa...
...Khan did in Chak De India. Producers are also more willing to bet their money on innovative scripts, in part because of an interesting change to the way Indian films are financed. Traditionally, a big part of Bollywood's funding has come from the Mumbai underworld laundering its ill-gotten gains. To try to assure profits, underworld backers insisted on tried-and-tested formulas. But with liberalization of the economy, producers now have legitimate means of raising film finance; big production houses such as UTV and Adlabs have recently raised money by listing on the stock exchange and some producers...
...have to make something funny to make sure I’m not going to hit the audience over the head with this nightmare,” she said. “I’m happy when they chuckle because it means that they’ve gotten what I was trying to do.” But the combination of humor and taboo that characterizes Schneemann’s work perplexed some in the audience. “Her work brings up a lot of mixed emotions that are hard to articulate,” Anne-Marie...
...they have gotten such a bad rap, man. They have been villainized, demonized, by European contemporaries and dragon-haters alike...
...recent months, U.S. military officials overseeing southern Iraq have gotten sketchy information indicating that Iranian operatives may be entering Iraq to train Iraqi guerrillas at sites in and around Karbala and Najaf. American commanders in Iraq have long asserted that Iran operates guerrilla training facilities for Iraqi militants near Tehran. Indeed, Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, says the Iranian ambassador in Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, is in reality a member of the Revolutionary Guards. Increasingly, U.S. soldiers are wondering if handlers from Iran's elite security forces have begun schooling and organizing fighters in the very...