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Anyway, it's adults who've made the couple dozen film versions. The Carroll texts are appealing because their vaudeville format - Alice's encounters with a series of outlandish comic creatures - lends itself to brief star turns. W.C. Fields played Humpty Dumpty, Gary Cooper the White Knight and Cary Grant the Mock Turtle in Hollywood's 1933 Alice. Peter Sellers, John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Michael Gough helped populate Jonathan Miller's 1966 BBC TV play. Sellers joined other Brit luminaries in a 1972 film of the books...
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...underwhelms on other big issues. "When it comes to pressing international problems like Afghanistan, Pakistan or North Korea, the E.U. is either largely invisible or absent," wrote Grant in his essay, provocatively titled "Is Europe Doomed to Fail as a Power?" Lucio Caracciolo, editor of Limes, one of Italy's leading foreign policy magazines, says the problem is a Cold War hangover. The post-World War II period was a golden age for Western Europe, a time of reconstruction under the U.S. security umbrella, he argues. When it ended, Europe went into shock. "We're in denial," Caracciolo says...
Successful asylum petitions typically involve applicants whose situations are more dire, such as women who were forced to undergo abortions or genital mutilation and men whose lives were threatened because they are homosexuals or political dissidents. But Piver believes the Memphis judge was right to grant the Romeikes asylum, since the law covers social groups with "a well-founded fear of persecution" in their home country...
...original version of this article has been updated to reflect the fact that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has submitted an appeal requesting to overturn the judge?s decision to grant the Romeikes asylum...