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...Festival's offerings so far. No films yet have reaped unanimous critical acclaim. A few name directors are thought to have been coasting (Pedro Almodóvar's Volver) or tailspinning (Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation) with their latest works. Some directors of promise, like the Turk auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan with his Climates, have brought works earning mild applause. We see and we shrug...
...officials are spinning the formation of Iraq's new government as a triumph of democracy and the first step toward stabilizing the civil war-ravaged country. But Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's cabinet, sworn in Saturday after five months of bickering and brinkmanship, has been greeted with a mixture of incredulity and skepticism by many Iraqis. "All that time spent in negotiations, and they couldn't fill the most important positions," says schoolteacher Salah Ubeidi, referring to three security-related posts that have been left vacant for now. "Why should we trust them to make the important decisions that...
...when TIME devoted a cover story to Nuri as-Said, the pro-Western Prime Minister of IRAQ, he was spearheading a much different sort of nation-building project...
...wife because he has fallen in love with a singer on TV.) Elsewhere in the north, electrical power is still intermittent, and many Iraqis blame the Coalition Provisional Authority. It's perhaps a hopeful sign that some Iraqis view this as a business opportunity. In Baqubah businessman Sadi Nuri, 36, has set up two large generators, from which he sells power to 200 homes in his neighborhood for a minimum of $2 a month per customer...
...offence, makes the Internet liable to regulations controlling the printed word and provides for potentially crippling fines. Subtly, it allows for more political control over broadcasting-authority appointments. "The Radio and Television Association was badly in need of reform, but now things are a whole lot worse," says Nuri Kayis, chief of the broadcasting body. Like many others, Kayis sees Dogan as the real force behind the law's success. Letting media groups enter into public tenders and allowing their proprietors to trade on the stock exchange, to Kayis' mind, means that "they can now intimidate the government or their...