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Don’t be afraid of bullies, individual or institutional. If you resist those who try to dominate, you may find that allies come to your side unexpectedly to lend their support. Confronting the abuse and centralization of power may also help you discover your own strengths to recognize the reality and glory of your own existence. Take important risks but avoid trivial ones. You may choose to risk dying as a photojournalist covering wars, but cross the street carefully and get plenty of exercise while back at home...
...situations lend themselves to melodrama more readily than the impact and aftermath of the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan. Yet two of the sharpest films on view in Cannes?At Five in the Afternoon and the native Afghan movie Osama?show the social carnage in intimate terms, as the backdrop to stories of women fighting for a measure of equality...
...department was appropriately judicious in reconsidering its decision to praise his work. There is a fine line between making sure the University does not squash the speech of figures such as Paulin—no matter how odious—and issuing its endorsement in a way that could lend academic legitimacy to such noxious ideas...
Most actors who lend their voices to an animated feature can't even taste the eggs; they record their lines before the film is made and usually without other actors. So, even more than usual, the actor becomes a child, striving to please his coaxing, demanding father: the director. "There's so much info you're not privy to, and they've been living with this for years," says Dafoe, a grizzled delight as the fish-tank lifer who masterminds Nemo's escape from alkaline. "So you just have to give over and trust them." Or, as Brooks puts...
Serbia was perfectly poised to lend a hand. Throughout the 1990s Yugoslav contractors defied U.N. sanctions and did business in Iraq: an outfit named Yugoimport built the Baath Party headquarters and at least five underground bunkers for Saddam Hussein. It also sold arms. That trade was finally shut down last year, after the U.S. blew the whistle and the recently assassinated Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic came clean...