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...direct cooperation between the two sets of authorities, who for all practical purposes refuse to recognize the jurisdiction of each other. Efforts to reunify Cyprus have consistently failed, most recently when U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed a comprehensive plan that would have compensated Greek Cypriots for land lost to Turks and ensured the security of Turkish Cypriots, reunifying the island under a single government. In separate referendums, 76% of Greek Cypriots rejected the plan; Turkish Cypriots voted overwhelmingly in favor. Cyprus was admitted to the European Union in 2004 as a divided island - a complicated arrangement that means while...
...California. But that feeling is in the movie, which is about the hero's displacement when he's thrown into a strange milieu, and his desperate need to find a sense of community in the new Oz. In Chicken Run, the outsider was a brash American rooster who crash-landed in an English hen house. In Flushed Away, the English hero is dumped into a land where the natives scheme, shout and betray, In a word: Hollywood...
...forced the cancellation of a World Gay Pride Procession that had been planned for Jerusalem this summer. Even then, one extremist, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, from the Eda Haredit rabbinic court, blamed the failure of Israel's campaign in Lebanon on "the homosexuals' obscenity and promiscuity in the Holy Land...
...anti-gay bandwagon has even attracted support from abroad. Rabbi Yehuda Levin, of the Orthodox Rabbinical Alliance of America and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada, has been carrying out a three-year campaign against what he calls "the homosexualization of the Holy Land." It was Levin who crossed the boundaries of religious and ethnic hostility and recruited the support of prominent Palestinian Islamic cleric Taisser Tamimi against the parade. Evangelical Christian groups were also upset by what they saw as the deliberate flaunting of sexuality in Christendom's most sacred place. Says Rev. Malcolm Hedding...
Despite Flowers’ showboating, I think it’s safe to say that people will be humming “This Land is Your Land” and “Born in the U.S.A.” long after Killers songs like “Bling (Confessions of a King)” are reduced to iTunes Music Store bargain bins. Whether they understand the intent behind the music is another story...