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...Prime Minister John Howard says that under the new system, Australia might be considered a country of resettlement for illegal arrivals who are found to be refugees. It may have to be, given the likely difficulty of finding countries willing to take them off Australia's hands, says McDowell: "Resettlement countries are becoming more selective in who they take, from where, and on whose terms." Many of those taken to Nauru in 2001 and found to be refugees were accepted by New Zealand, but in Wellington, a spokesman for Immigration Minister David Cunliffe says Australia has made no request...
...CHALLENGE Adapting the worldwide best-selling novel into a taut, suspenseful thriller. "Because the story is so well known," says director Ron Howard, "the last little bit of mystery I have to offer is how I interpreted...
WHAT'S NEW Not the story line, which follows the book's uncovering of an alleged Christianity con job almost, um, religiously. But Howard delivers something the novel doesn't: re-creations of supposed historical events central to the ancient conspiracy. "We try to transport the audience back in time so they can understand its context," he says...
...cynical repartee in Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1928 comedy The Front Page zipped like the Super-Chief through a plot of political and journalistic malfeasance. When director Howard Hawks in 1940 changed ace reporter Hildy Johnson from man to woman, the story was also about another frantic combat: marriage. Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell are the sparring partners in the fastest, nastiest farce Hollywood has ever made...
...could not explain the source of the party ban. “We just inherited it...we came into a tradition,” Conley said. “I didn’t even know there was a campus-wide ban,” said Leverett House Master Howard Georgi. “The prefrosh and everyone else should be resting up for the 80s Dance on Saturday anyway...