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...film's most memorable characters is Elliott Lovett, last seen rapping in Uday Hussein's former palace. When he told the filmmaker his Miami hometown was more dangerous than Baghdad, "I followed that lead like you would as a journalist," says Gittoes. And what that led to is Rampage, the documentary that has its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival next week. In 103 fast-and-furious minutes, we meet Lovett's neighborhood of Brown Sub. It's Miami Vice without the pastel suits and palm trees, a no-go zone where AK-47s are the weapons of choice...
...about journalism, boy that would have assuaged them,” he says.But not many doubts had presented themselves. Long before he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982, Rosenthal made and distributed a newspaper as a kid for his neighbors on an old typewriter. He also voraciously read his hometown paper, The Oregonian, where he later worked and thrived as a reporter.“My parents were immigrants who had a hard time making a living,” he says. “The local newspaper, The Oregonian, was a primary Americanizing influence in my life?...
...Pope Benedict XVI's entire trip to Poland has been a chance to pay homage to the Polish pope. He spoke in the central Warsaw square where John Paul II encouraged his countrymen to maintain their faith in the face of the Communist regime. He visited his predecessor?s hometown and gave hope to those who want to see John Paul be made a saint as soon as possible. And he drew a million-strong crowd Sunday morning in Krakow, the former diocese of Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, for an open-air mass. All along, he received rave reviews from...
...every month, at the hour of his death, saying that the ritual "supports those working on his Cause." Benedict told the crowd Saturday in the central square of Wadowice that he will be praying that John Paul's sainthood comes "soon." That got big cheers from the hometown crowd, chants of "We Thank You! We Thank You!" and a smile from the Polish pope's former longtime personal secretary, Stanislaw Dziwisz, who has since taken over his boss' old job as Archbishop of Krakow...
...Obviously, discussing one’s sexual identity is often very difficult. Depending on a person’s social circle, hometown, religion, and family background, this can be an even harder decision. Some gay students reading this may be thinking, “Well, straight girl, who are you to tell me to make this difficult choice that you won’t ever have to make?” I realize that I don’t have the right to tell people how to live their lives, but just as I beg a friend with an eating...