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...disturbing but not graphic scene that inspired the controversy, the camera fixes on a closeup of Fanning's terrified face while a neighbor boy unzips his pants. Despite the lack of nudity, and cutaways to falling rain, it's clear the boy rapes Fanning's character, Lewellen. More uncomfortable to watch than that short scene, in which the trauma is implied, are the lingering shots throughout the film in which Lewellen gyrates to Elvis music in her underwear while older men and boys watch hungrily...
...will read them? "The community of people who blog and read blogs, in specific areas of interest ranging from politics to food and from fashion to philosophy," says Bellow. "Beyond that, I have in mind the much larger audience of people who know that blogs exist but lack the time or inclination to sift through the enormous flow of verbiage to find the best that has been thought and said online...
...David Cameron: I supported the decision to go to war, and most of the Conservative Party voted with the government at the time. There were serious mistakes made subsequent to that - disbanding the Iraqi army and the police force, allowing a situation of anarchy to develop, the lack of proper post-war planning in terms of how Iraq was going to run - and I think there are some different decisions that could have been taken that would have led to very different consequences. Even now, I would be more comfortable with something that was closer to the Baker-Hamilton plan...
...President Carter’s book has been met with controversy and criticism by top scholars who consider it to lack objectivity and to contain factual errors, omissions, and plagiarism,” Stern said in an e-mailed statement. “Writing a book which omits facts and contains incorrect information is detrimental to the goal of achieving peace and understanding between the Israelis and Palestinians...
...Stanford Provost John Etchemendy, also mentioned as a possible contender, reiterated his own lack of interest in the job. He wrote in an e-mail that he is not a candidate “in my own eyes or, I trust, in the eyes of the search committee” and that he was “not just being coy.” [See story here...