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...this week's Oscar pools, was between two nominees for the foreign-language Academy Award, both of them released by Sony Pictures Classics. A Prophet, Jacques Audiard's French prison drama, opened to a decent $170,000 in nine theaters in New York and Los Angeles, while Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon made $168,000 in its ninth week of limited release. That movie has now passed $1.5 million in North America - not bad for a powerful but super-austere epic about collective madness in a German village on the eve of World War I. (See the 2010 Oscar...
...Davos, French President Nicolas Sarkozy blamed globalization for the financial crisis. However, what we need is more, not less, globalization—Michael Dawson, a political science Professor at the University of Chicago, devised the term “linked fate,” a concept in which interdependence, which is similar to globalization, is key to promoting group interests above individual interest. In determining public policy, powerful social concepts such as linked fate can be very useful for coming up with practical and sustainable solutions. To remedy the financial whooping cough Americans are going through, policy experts...
Purcell said that the IOP has worked to create an offering of internships that represents a diverse array of political opportunities—including new placements at the Republican National Committee and the offices of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg...
...collaboration at the graduate level was mirrored at the junior high school level, allowing the younger students to “connect with their peers and embrace others’ cultures through education,” said Michael C. Batt, a social studies teacher at Amigos and one of the student council coordinators...
...With reporting by Mark Thompson, Massimo Calabresi and Michael Scherer / Washington, Tim McGirk / Islamabad, Aryn Baker / Boston and Shah Barakzai / Kabul...