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...Other filmmakers can apply to the FDC for partial funding and, to its credit, four projects, including those of first-time directors, have received awards since February. But funds are modestly capped at just over $460,000 per film. To get a sense of the competition facing industry entrants, one only needs to compare this level of financing to that of the Chinese-language film dominating the city's movie houses this season - John Woo's Chinese historical drama Red Cliff, which with its estimated $80 million budget is Asia's most expensive movie to date. The trend for increasingly...
...development to this sleepy former Portuguese colony - and it has. Between 2004 and 2006, $3.3 billion of foreign direct investment flowed into the territory, and the effect on this city of just 540,000 people can be likened to filling a teacup with a fire hose. Since 2003, GDP per capita has doubled, wages have risen by two-thirds and the unemployment rate has fallen by half. The economy grew 27% in 2007 alone...
...Indeed, critics say, India's government is ill-prepared to prevent domestic terrorism arising from religious extremism. The country has just 126 police officers per 100,000 people - the U.N. recommends 222 - and the Intelligence Bureau, which handles internal security, has a mere 3,500 field operatives for a country of 1.1 billion. In response to the growing threat, the central government is considering setting up a new federal agency to investigate major terrorism cases and is devoting more money to local intelligence-gathering...
...first act. The nude scene was Hair's most notorious thumb in the eye of bourgeois inhibitions, though not all the actors were quite ready for the statement. Some were willing to disrobe, and some weren't; as an incentive, the producers offered a $1.50 bonus per show to any cast member who bared...
...experts. As always, he was fixated on cutting little things, the so-called earmarks that our legislators put in to provide funds for museums commemorating the harmonica and to build bridges to nowhere. A worthy crusade, a hardy McCain perennial, but one that would net only about $20 billion per year. Meanwhile, McCain was also proposing to extend the Bush tax cuts and add others, including a significant corporate-tax-rate cut, which would subtract about $300 billion. "McCain has set a responsible goal," said Bob Bixby of the deficit-obsessed Concord Coalition, "but he has no plausible...