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...strong sense of self and understand how to take care of her body and mind as she went into high school," she says. Even some old-fashioned camps are joining the mind-and-body movement. The Kenwood camp in New Hampshire, a place about as woodsy and canoe laden as they come, plans to offer guided meditation and yoga this summer. "Kids are open to a lot more now," says camp owner Scott Brody, "in part because their parents have gotten more into health as well...
...boss of al-Jazeera International, Parsons is creating from scratch an English-language sister channel to the controversial Arabic broadcaster best known in the West for bringing Osama bin Laden to the world's television screens. In early 2006, al-Jazeera's English channel plans to start going head to head with the likes of CNN and the BBC in the battle for consumers of 24-hour news. The channel's budget is a closely guarded secret, as are the identities of the distributors and advertisers it is wooing, but al-Jazeera is clearly aiming high. "We think...
...Western sentiment." It doesn't help things that al-Jazeera's star correspondent, Tayseer Alouni, is on trial in Madrid on charges of being an al-Qaeda operative. Al-Jazeera is standing by its reporter, saying his contacts were consistent with his work as a journalist who covered bin Laden's organization...
...mainstream media. "In the younger market, al-Jazeera actually carries a lot of street cred," he says. "It is perceived as being slightly antiestablishment, the enfant terrible of broadcasting." In a 4 1/2-min. p.r. video being prepared for potential distributors and advertisers, al-Jazeera execs refrain from using bin Laden's image but otherwise do little to downplay militancy. To a techno beat, the video shows a gunman with an AK-47 rifle, street mayhem in Jerusalem and other disturbing images from the Arabic channel's news footage...
Like a baseball manager, Cannes programmer Thierry Fremeaux likes to pack his heavy hitters in the middle of his lineup. So in the fat of the Festival, days five through seven of the 11-day film binge, the Cannes Competition slate has star-laden movies from David Cronenberg, Jim Jarmusch and Lars Von Trier...