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...film-you learn something from all of them. I think the best bit of advice I was ever given about film acting came from an American actor and producer and director called Bob Balaban. He said, You don't know where the arrow of your performance is going to land. You have no idea. And I had found that out to be true. You know when you intensely, intensely try and emotionally express the pain of loss [or] whatever you're trying to do, and what's on the screen is something completely different. Not what you intended...
...Land of Peril - and Peace Since my wife and Ijust returned from a trip to Israel and the West Bank, I read "Israel's Secret War" with great interest [March 24]. We were both concerned and encouraged by what we saw of everyday life in that troubled part of the world. While we believe Israel's border checkpoints help provide security that its citizens deserve, we also saw checkpoints located well inside the West Bank that seem to have the purpose of hassling Palestinians. It was encouraging, though, to meet with Father Elias Chacour, a Catholic Archbishop and three-time...
Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, has always been crucial to the politics of southern Africa. Ruthlessly grabbed by Cecil Rhodes and a ragtag army of white adventurers in the 19th century, it became virtually a European country, the original inhabitants driven from their land and reduced to workers and servants. Although Rhodesia had one of the continent's best-educated African populations, it denied Africans political power. In 1965, after Britain tried to force change on the white settlers, they declared it an independent, white-ruled republic. Black majority rule? "Not in a thousand years," proclaimed the white leader, Ian Smith. That...
UNESCO rates the "galleries" at Quinkan, where spirits are said to hide in the rock crevices and rise at night to roam the land, among the Top 10 in the world. That's reason enough for a visit, although the dramatic setting - a tranquil valley surrounded by sandstone escarpments - adds to the allure. It's hard to believe the Kuku Yalanji people, a tribe of hunter-gatherers, lived here right up until the late 19th century, their lives measured by the rhythm of rituals linked to puberty, manhood, marriage, birth and death. In 1873, gun-toting goldminers arrived...
...rest of the world combined. The government’s preparations for the Olympics have placed great hardship on the Chinese people, as over 400,000 people have been evicted from their homes to make way for stadiums and new highways. Few receive compensation, because in China, most land is “collectivized” and technically belongs to the central government. These injustices have continued to occur despite China’s earlier promises to move towards democracy...