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...appears - patient, unglamorous and someone who, like Claudel himself, has worked in prisons and understands the devastation that long-term incarceration can cause. Most important, there is Léa. It is she who has loved Juliette so long and who is determined to bring her back to the land of the living. She is intelligent, but she has the good sense not to boldly assert it. She just goes swimming and shopping with her sister, in effect showing her the simple pleasures of the quotidian - of not succumbing to self-pity, of taking responsibility for modest, restorative actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Modest Triumph of I've Loved You So Long | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

Cougars, tigers, and killers, oh my! What do you get when you strand a band in the desert with a couple of amps, some lighting rigs, and a few carnivorous land animals? The Killers’ latest video for their new single “Human,” of course. Despite the rather random concept of this short (a mix of Discovery Channel and Siegfried and Roy), the stark setting and lack of narrative definitely highlights their most obvious talent—live performance. And those who have followed this group since their formative days of indie hair...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: The Killers | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

Armed with a host of colorful land distribution charts and photographs from his research, Wilcove discussed the biodiversity-friendly methods of pastoralism and planned burning in Kenya, and contrasted them with the disastrous effects of oil palm cultivation in Borneo...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Princeton Professor Warns of Cultivation Threat | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

National Review •speculation that Obama "very possibly" would have been aborted if Roe v. Wade had been the law of the land in 1961 is raised by writer on Website...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...Some of the same slogans were heard in Indian-administered Kashmir during the summer, when tens of thousands of people poured out on to the streets in a surprise wave of protests, triggered by a dispute over a 99-acre piece of land designated for the use of Hindu pilgrims visiting a nearby shrine. The Indian government eventually backed down, but Hindu hardliners subsequently enforced a blockade of the only road linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of India. The opening of cross-Line of Control trade route is seen by some as a concession to the Muslim majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India, Pakistan Cross the 'Line' | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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