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...something the people who run the "egg" recognize. The National Grand Theater has launched a project entitled "Opening the Door to Art Education," consisting of a series of lectures on western classical music. "It will take time," Liu says, "Maybe China is developing a bit too fast," on the track to a sizzling economy and unheard of wealth. "Art is having a hard time keeping...
This time however there are some important differences. Turkey isn't invading the lawless hinterland of a pariah nation (Saddam's Iraq) but a region that not too long ago was considered the one relative success of the American project in Iraq. The United States - which controls Iraqi airspace - tried to forestall a Turkish invasion, but eventually caved into Turkish demands and agreed to a limited incursion. The fact that Turkey was ready to risk alienating its American ally for an operation with little chance of strategic success is a testament to the uproar by the Turkish public for action...
This is the chancy sort of project that gets made because some financier thinks it will win awards, thus bringing in the customers and justifying its costs. My prognosis: the movie won't survive that long. But there's a chance it will be discovered on DVD by its natural audience: the old folks who don't go to movie theaters but could use a sweet fable to take them into the long night at home. That's the one wish that might be granted on The Bucket List's own bucket list...
Sources: U.S. News & World Report (2); USA Today (2); Billboard (2); Pew Internet and American Life Project...
...railing against Republicans and Democrats alike for not doing enough to secure U.S. borders, even after Congress passed legislation to build a 700-mile border fence that some experts say could cost as much as $50 billion. (So far, less than $5 billion has actually been appropriated for the project...