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...director who had used a double for a nude scene in her film Ek Chhoti Si Love Story. Last month, she lost the case. So she sought help from another powerful gang in Bombay: the Hindu chauvinist Shiv Sena political party. Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray considers himself the protector of Hindu culture, even as his boys, like the bhais, win adherents by force. When Love Story was released, Shiv Sena activists attacked the theaters, ripped up billboards and threatened owners to stop screenings of the film. In Bombay, the Mob isn't the only mob in town...
...possible, for that matter, to provide a lucid, nuanced portrait of children in distress? Yes, says Christophe Ruggia's Les Diables, about two abandoned kids - Joseph (Vincent Rottiers) and his autistic sister Chloé (Adèle Haenell) - searching for their home. Joseph is Chloé's protector and, if he were only old enough to realize it, her lover, with all the devotion and myopia true love entails. Harrowing and delicate, this French film transcends case history to become a work of seamless art and broken heart. And for a retreat into luminous, ageless film craft, queue...
...Preparing For The Worst Russia began offering foreign companies insurance against corrupt judges, officials and politicians. The initiative is intended to boost foreign investment, which fell 25% this year. But after last week's kidnapping of Lukoil vice president Sergei Kukura, investors may not be quite convinced. Pocket Protector Levi Strauss, the jeans group, may soon be a dirty word in the telecom industry - and not just because those button flies are so tricky. Levi's is unveiling a new line of trousers with "antiradiation" mobile-phone pockets, even though research has shown no definitive radiation risk to phone users...
Today Indians are looking to their own oral histories, as well as reading between the lines of the journals, to re-interpret what happened. Says Ben Sherman, president of the Western American Indian Chamber in Denver: "The upcoming events portray Clark as the benevolent protector of Indians--that's propagandist baloney." The tragic aftermath: as Governor of the Missouri Territory and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Clark presided over President Thomas Jefferson's land-grab policy, which some historians characterize as a direct cause of "cultural genocide" and "ethnic cleansing...
Despite Hussein’s deplorable human rights record, the charges against him are not new nor are they different from those against dictators in all too many countries. However, the United States is not rushing to be the moral protector of the downtrodden elsewhere. What is different about Iraq is oil, and the Staff naively dismisses oil’s central role, as well as the Bush administration’s history of accommodating the oil industry. America cannot in good faith try to take the moral high ground on this issue...