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...LIBYA'S ALLEGED PLOT TO ASSASSINATE SAUDI CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH WHY LIBYA REMAINS ON THE U.S. LIST OF TERRORIST STATES? We have a good relationship with Saudi Arabia. My personal relationship with Prince Abdullah is a good one. This is a fabricated case, an intentionally destructive thing. We see America paying so much attention to [Abdullah], as if he were its citizen. They have not learned from the past. The list of accusations against Libya is very long. They all proved false. We are still in a vicious circle...
...appeared on most critics' year-end Top 10 lists, netted seven Grammy Award nominations (including one for Album of the Year), returned for another run atop the charts this month and inspired talk that the rock opera--oh, yes, American Idiot is a rock opera with characters and a plot and sociopolitical themes, no less--might be due for a revival. The emergence of Green Day as artisteshas stunned the music industry; imagine Hollywood the day after the Farrelly brothers win Best Picture, and you'll have some idea...
When an arty director has an international hit, it's usually because audiences have been allowed to mistake it for something conventional. Viewers can see Koreeda's rigorously unsentimental film as a Spielberg lost-kids plot rendered in Japanese and in slow motion. And they can feast on the child actors, all of them unaffected and adorable. Yagira, with the smooth androgyny of an anime hero, is a real eye magnet; the camera, puppylike, practically licks his face. Yet this precocious thespian is a real kid. When he was finally handed his Best Actor trophy, he asked, "Can I take...
...episodes of the show “24” prior to their TV premiere and free of commercials, a qualification was made that the episodes be screened only once. The Council had no way of surmising from the show’s advertised topic that the plot would offend parts of Harvard’s population, and a tendency for controversial political bias in the parent company was judged to not be reason enough to decline the idea for a free advanced screening. Further, if any student group or students had been concerned...
After not having received word of any such concerns, the Council sponsors events like this one with confidence that the attendees, all of whom chose on their own to watch the show, discerningly consider the message of the programming, any unfair portrayals therein, and the fact that the plot offered is no more than that of a TV drama. Nonetheless, the Council’s sponsorship of a screening does not imply an endorsement of the message or content shown...