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Audience questions focused on a variety of specifically Asian-American issues, from the Lee case to the situation of 2,500 Peruvian Japanese imported into the U.S. and detained during the Second World...
...trouble in Peru is just beginning. Three days of ballot tallies ended last Wednesday in the announcement that a runoff vote would take place in June between the two leading candidates for the Peruvian presidency, incumbent Alberto Fujimori and opposition leader Alejandro Toledo. President Fujimori is vying for his third straight term in office, but his campaign has been recently marred by allegations of corruption. Most recently, it is likely that Fujimori tampered with the ballots. When "official" election returns suggested a Fujimori victory--even though exit polls 12 hours earlier indicated that the Peruvian president would not have...
...decade ago--Peru was in chaos when Fujimori first came to office--it is time that they move away from autocratic, superficial democratic rule, toward true national consensus-building. In this new age, dissolving Congress and the Supreme Court, as Fujimori did in 1992, is not acceptable. Whether Peruvian voters choose Fujimori or Toledo in June, one hopes that their ballots will reflect a justified confidence in the integrity of the electoral system...
...another way, the guy was nuts, and Herzog had to be a bit eccentric to keep casting him; the five films they made together turned their friendship into a holy war. Yet the combustion produced amazing adventures: Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in which Kinski goes berserk in the Peruvian rain forest, and Nosferatu the Vampire, with the actor as a pathetic, rodentoid Dracula. This documentary, a gallivanting time trip through a bolder film era, is Herzog's final collaboration with Kinski: an act of love and exorcism...
...quilt from India. Even better, the site buys products only from humanitarian organizations committed to improving the life of the artisans by ensuring a safe work environment and a living wage as well as a savings plan. That means $11 of the $46 you pay for a hand-blown Peruvian vase goes directly to the artisan co-op that made it--about twice what traditional retail outlets would...