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There is something different in the air at Christiania these days - the usual spicy aroma of marijuana smoke now occasionally mixes with the smell of tear gas and burning tires. That's because, more than three decades after Europe's oldest and largest commune was established as an antidote to "selfish society," Danish authorities are moving to close it down. More than 90 people were arrested a few weeks ago after groups of youths fought running battles with police, throwing bottles and cobblestones and burning homemade barricades. The riot, a rare occurrence in this normally placid Scandinavian country, was prompted...
...also re-evaluate Kennedy's commitment to civil rights and the role religion played in his election. The historian Robert Dallek argues that Kennedy has been given too little credit for progress in dealing with America's oldest and greatest social divide. Nancy Gibbs' powerful story about Kennedy's Catholicism shows the discrimination he faced and the boldness with which he triumphed over it. Kennedy ultimately made a practical argument against prejudice. "While this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed," he said in a speech to the conservative Greater Houston Ministerial Association...
...cheaper, more popular talent contests and reality shows. Movies have stepped into that gap. There's a connection with TV, of course: nearly all of today's movie-comedy stars (Carell, Stiller, Ferrell) started on the small screen. The biggest hits also depend on two of the oldest, most productive Hollywood combustions: first between script and star, then between star and audience...
...trying to think of something new to say about the canals, the gilded palaces or the fat pigeons in San Marco. But every two years - this is one of them - Venice itself comes up with something new, the Venice Biennale, founded in 1895 and now the world's oldest international art fair...
Their decision to depart came after a year that saw the summer 2006 ousting of O'Brien from her former deputy dean position, and the death of Badaracco's oldest daughter, Anna, in an August 2006 car accident...