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...With Stellet Licht (Silent Light), which won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2007 and opened Jan. 7 at New York City's Film Forum, Reygadas shocks again: this drama of a Mennonite community in northern Mexico contains no explicit hanky-panky. In its way, the film is true to the severe, austere code of the Mennonites. Yet it is shot with such care and creativity that each scene has a visual, emotional luster. One critic jokingly called Silent Light the best film ever made in its language - an easy claim to fame, since it is probably the only film...
...This year's CES runs Jan. 8-11 and the keynote speaker is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The conference will include 2,700 exhibitors flaunting their wares across 1.7 million square feet of floor space at the Las Vegas Convention Center and Sands Expo and Convention Center in the Venetian Casino and Hotel. The sponsoring Consumer Electronics Association, a trade group, expects 130,000 people to attend, including retailers, manufacturers and members of the press. (See TIME's Best Inventions...
...Merkel faces a re-election fight in September. Her main opponents are her current partners in government, the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Both parties will be measured by their response to the financial crisis. An early test comes on Jan. 18, when the first of several key state and municipal elections takes place in Hesse. According to polls, Merkel's CDU has a good chance of beating the SPD. It was against this political backdrop that Merkel this week dropped her vehement opposition to cutting taxes, under pressure from allies within her conservative alliance. "The people expect tax relief," said...
...original version of this story said the the United Nations Relief and Works Agency school in Jabalya was hit by Israeli bombs. That was based on a preliminary UN report on the Jan. 6 incident that referred to "the shelling of the UNRWA school." That report was later clarified to indicate that the shelling and the fatalities took place outside the school. The report reiterated that many among the more than 40 fatalities were among the 1,368 people who had taken refuge in the school...
...Moscow began turning off the gas to Ukraine's pipes on Jan. 1, and by Tuesday it had reduced the supply to one-fifth its normal flow. On Wednesday, it cut the supply entirely. By then, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Croatia and Bosnia all reported a virtual shutoff in gas deliveries, and a resulting shortage in homes and businesses. So did Bulgaria, where the chill of the Russian gas cut was so swift - and where reserves are so low - that officials said they would consider restarting an unused nuclear power plant to compensate...