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...Recently, though, the list has got pretty samey. Among this year's top five were two popular films, the winning Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, buttressed by three strenuously worthy films - Frost/Nixon, Milk and The Reader - that appealed to the political preoccupations (Watergate, gays and the Holocaust) of the Academy's venerable membership, and which almost nobody else cared...
...never been a stunt for me. The first thing I bought when I got my book advance was a milk goat, because I had always wanted to have one. It's so wonderful to have the animals around, especially now when I'm having these [book] events and it can be kind of stressful. I come home and the goats don't think anything of it. I find it very soothing...
...Read "Russia-Belarus Relations Sour over Milk...
...sensitive cases these lawyers have handled include illegal land seizures, representing victims of faulty products, like in last year's tainted-milk scandal, defending Tibetans accused of agitating for independence and, as in Li's case, defending followers of Falun Gong. "Lawyers no longer serve only as instruments of political control like how they were expected to perform from the 1950s to the 1970s," says Albert Ho, a Hong Kong solicitor and chairman of China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group. "With the opening and liberalization of China, it needs to build a system of law and a sound legal system...
...always been really difficult. At the end of the day, Belarus needs trade and resources to survive, both of which come from Russia." So for now, Belarus will have to keep up its balancing act between Russia and Europe - and hope that, soon, Russia goes back to drinking its milk...