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...land in Richard Kelly's Southland Tales is Southern California in the year 2008. The U.S. is under a kind of martial law, because, the narrator says, "After the nuclear attacks on Texas, things got real complicated." The government is trying to harness a hydrokinetic energy called "fluid karma." The country's rebels include prostitutes, arms dealers and various flaky types...
...accuse the museum's director, Hubertus Knabe, of being a "professional agitator." Earlier this month, Schmidt was ordered to stop communicating with or about Knabe, or face a fine. Two new books by ex-Stasi agents also portray the secret police as professional men upholding the law of the land. "In our intelligence work we never used methods that led to serious crimes, terror or murder," said one of the authors, Gotthold Schramm, at a press conference. Stasi victims in the audience greeted that statement with loud jeers. Germany was one of the first countries to provide public access...
Harvard wants to transfer the Charlesview residents—and their federal subsidies—to a new housing facility a mile away on land currently owned by the University. But Harvard officials believed that old HUD guidelines might bar long-term subsidy transfers, according to Senior Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey...
...sorry, this room is for quiet study only, and your body is calling out to me. 13) Would you go in for a threesome with me and the security guard who looks like a pirate? 14) I can recite “The Waste Land.” Naked. 15) Is this the reference desk? Great, because I need help finding some books.* *Not an actual pick-up line...
...told the Global Exchange group in Petare. "With other governments we had to keep our mouths closed. But this president has given us the power to fight." Romero tells the Americans that Chavez has helped eradicate illiteracy in the barrio, assisted residents fighting to get legal titles to their land and supported cooperatives that are helping more people get work. His neighbor, who lacked a basic education but now studies under a government-sponsored education program, says she will soon be working thanks to the president. One American, visibly moved by the presentation, shouted, "Let the revolution continue!" Another opened...