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There's a teensy catch, of course. Although the movie makes no mention of it, it was entirely financed (to the tune of about $250,000) by Smile Train, an organization that seeks to fix cleft palates in children from developing countries. Smile Pinki follows the story of two of those children, Pinki and Ghutaru, from remote villages in India to a hospital in the city, to have their cleft palates fixed and their futures profoundly altered. (Children with cleft palates are often ostracized and find it difficult to get an education or to subsequently find a good...
...will have a vastly better success rate than most direct-mail programs. "Most charities would be horrified by all of this," he admits. "If you went to most boards and said you wanted to spend a quarter of a million dollars on a documentary that doesn't even mention the name of the charity, they'd be appalled. But this was the best $250,00 any charity ever spent...
...Although the report does not mention them by name, it clearly targets French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who have both said that Turkey can never be allowed to join the E.U. The two leaders came to power after the E.U.'s unanimous decision in 2004 to formally start accession talks with Turkey. But they instead talk of Turkey having a "privileged relationship" with the E.U. rather than full E.U. membership. (Read "Target Germany: A Second Front in Afghanistan...
...left; virtually every other change has been the reverse. Worried about increased accidents, tens of thousands of Samoans have protested the plan. As a Samoan lawyer opposed to the switch told the Times of London, "Cars are going to crash, people are going to die, not to mention the huge expense to our small country." (Read "Zero-Emission Cars: A Battle Among Technologies...
...overshadowed by the decorative aspects of individual pieces and fail to express any sense of atmosphere—a not-insignificant focus for the brothers. The most interesting photo depicts the incorporation of a full-grown tree into the stone terrace of one of their creations. There is mention of some of their more unique structures—the granite house of D.L. James which seems to grow from the granite cliff on which it sits, the use of landscape and flow in general—but there is a disappointing lack of emphasis on their larger triumphs beyond...