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...film about class in England? I think so. We're so neurotic about class in England that I don't think we've got the distance to make perceptive movies about it. It's taken the foreign eyes of these great directors like Woody and Robert Altman with Gosford Park and Ang Lee with Sense and Sensibility...
...pick for a medal in the most glamorous event at the Games. First, though, the 21-year-old has to qualify for the U.S. team at next week's U.S. championships; only the first three finishers earn tickets to Torino. Cohen talked to TIME's Alice Park about skating, modeling and living by the beach...
...Indeed, the Sudanese turned the park into their residence. Children were born in the makeshift tents held up by tree branches; weddings were celebrated; fellow refugees who transgressed against others were punished there (a makeshift cage was set up among the trees to incarcerate the offenders). But sanitary conditions declined severely and the Egyptians who lived in the high-toned neighborhood around the park complained to authorities of human waste and garbage proliferating. Three refugee children died because of illness and exposure to cold temperatures. Meanwhile, mosque personnel complained that the Sudanese were sitting on the sidewalk beside the mosque...
...Egyptian authorities defended their actions, declaring that the Sudanese had refused all efforts of mediation undertaken by U.N. officers as well as Egyptian and Sudanese officials; furthermore, they argued that the Sudanese were violating the law with their annexation of the park and were under an obligation to respect their host country. The Egyptian foreign ministry added that Cairo had to take action after requests by the UNHCR to end the protest because the refugees in the garden did not qualify for the legal immigrant status and many were staying illegally after the expiration of their visas. For the survivors...
...concerts scheduled for the day, were persuaded to divert from their itineraries and play for free. "Charm, handsomeness and the fact that [Bono] wrote Where the Streets Have No Name goes you a long way," says Coldplay's Chris Martin, one of the headliners in London's Hyde Park...