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...urgent bid to join the European Union, finally issued its own belated offer for 2006. But even now, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discovered a previous engagement that will take him out of the country while Benedict is in it. Although modest, sales of a Turkish novel subtitled Who Will Kill the Pope in Istanbul? (the book fingers everyone but Islamists) have increased as his trip approaches. The country is expected to place about 22,000 policemen on the streets of Istanbul while he is there. "This is a very high-risk visit," says Cengiz Aktar, a Turkish...
...city “jungle.” Schmid would revisit the drifting-teenager theme with 2000’s “Crazy” (screening Sunday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m.), a well-crafted story of boarding school angst, based on an autobiographical novel by Benjamin Lebert. In the eleven years since “Jungle” opened in Germany, Schmid has attracted stateside attention for “Requiem” (screening Saturday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m.), his 2005 film that debuted in America last month. Based on the same events that inspired...
...Lloyd Old, chair of the Ludwig Fund Trustees, said in a statement released by Dana-Farber yesterday. “Dr. George Demetri has made outstanding contributions to this tradition by successfully linking the strengths of the laboratory, the clinic and the pharmaceutical industry to forge novel and effective cancer therapies...
...followed Pandora with Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl, where she's Thiamine, an innocent girl suffering under men's predations - lots of them. The story is like a Dickens novel but with plenty of sex. Her father gets all his serving girls pregnant; his assistant gets Thiamine pregnant; the reform school she's sent to is run by a hairless sadist and his weird wife, who comes to orgasm beating a drum while the girls do their calisthenics. And that's just the first half-hour...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is the author of See No Evil and most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...