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...special galleries to prevent any mixing. Alcohol sales at the stadium were banned on the night of the game. And last but not least, the Russian authorities preemptively locked up some particularly notorious Russian neo-Nazis, who had previously been responsible for deadly attacks on foreigners, although they had hitherto hardly been a priority of law enforcement...
...Magical Kingdom is a little short on enchanted subjects. The fifth branch of the Happiest Place on Earth has been criticized for being too small and offering too few rides, but the The Walt Disney Company hopes to inject a little fairy dust into the place by adding a hitherto missing ingredient: the iconic "It's A Small World" ride - a boat tour through an air-conditioned world of singing and dancing dolls sporting Disney's idea of their country's traditional costumes in locales both real and imagined. ("The Islands" features representatives of Hawaii alongside those of New Guinea...
...Another after-effect of Kosovo's independence is Moscow's rallying of its hitherto reluctant CIS partners against the West. Oil-rich Azerbaijan, for example, had long begun inclining towards the West, but may be pushed back into Moscow's orbit because of Nagorno-Karabakh, a province that broke away in the 1990s and has de facto integrated with Armenia. Last week, for the first time in years, Azeri and Armenian forces clashed in a full scale fighting in Karabakh...
...small Nebraska town of Falls City, hoping to live peacefully as a man and, perhaps at some point, to undergo sex change surgery. Teena dated women and befriended guys successfully, until a couple of his friends discovered his secret. Aghast at the affront to their masculine sensitivities and their hitherto manly friendship, two of Teena’s friends beat and raped him. A week after he reported it to police (upon the encouragement of his girlfriend, who remained loyal throughout), they shot...
...Marketa Irglova performed—and later won the Oscar for—their tune “Falling Slowly” from “Once,” the show became for a moment genuinely entertaining—and from a musical number, no less! These hitherto unknown artists performed their song without pomp or circumstance and delivered the most earnest and hopeful acceptance speech at the ceremony. But what made that moment so special was that it was so anti-Oscar. Indeed the rest of the ceremony left me entirely spent. I felt like Daniel Day-Lewis...