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...screenplay. “My co-writer and I actually heard a segment…that was about a young girl who actually had cystic fibrosis but was living her life with so much enthusiasm, really living her life fully. This is something we really believe in and could hold true for everybody,” she said. Parise and co-writer Peter Stebbings used this idea as the inspiration for Jill. “She lives in every moment, takes risks, is messy, and is funny. She makes mistakes, she fixes them, and I felt like that was something...
...softening of Mugabe's policy, white-owned farms would not be handed back to their former owners. Rather, the government would curb "corrupt and self-serving" land seizures while remaining committed to "systematic land reform that benefits the black people of Zimbabwe." On the question of whether to hold the Mugabe regime accountable for its crimes, Tsvangirai has offered to be flexible in order to secure its departure...
...material might be censored or altered—especially considering that the Chinese government regularly restricts access to certain sites it deems “subversive.” In this case, Chinese officials have promised not to censor the courses, but we are hesitant to trust them to hold to their word. Even recently, when China was bidding to host the Olympics, it indicated that it would improve the human rights situation within its borders, and it has so far failed to live up to those promises. We hope that the requirement that the Education Ministry approve degree programs...
...spent more than a decade under house arrest, will be barred from the 2010 elections because of a peculiar clause in the constitutional draft that disqualifies candidates who have family members who are foreigners. (Suu Kyi's husband, who died in 1999, was English, and her two sons hold British passports.) Second, despite several mentions of the word "democracy" - albeit always attached to the strange phrase "discipline-flourishing" - the draft ensures that the military will continue to exert great control over the nation. A quarter of all parliamentary seats will be filled by military officers, while the president must have...
...announcer on Burmese state television only had two sentences to offer, but they were supposed to herald good news. On May 10th, he declared, Burma would hold a constitutional referendum, giving citizens a rare chance to participate in the political process. In the wake of global condemnation of crushed protests last year, Burma's secretive junta had apparently committed itself to a modicum of reform. Among the first steps would be a plebiscite on the army-drafted charter. (The previous constitution was torn up by the junta 18 years ago, and the country has operated without a basic law since...