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...show it to them." So far, he hasn't been able to. All of Panahi's films, including Offside, have been banned from public theaters in Iran. Denied an audience at home, Offside's fate is that of many Iranian films when they dare to question the status quo: it has become a hit on the international festival circuit and in Western art-house cinemas. But a funny thing happened on the way to the foreign box office. Offside was granted a screening at this year's Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran, which is organized by the Ministry...
...reassert its authority over the country's Catholics. Becquelin believes that church officials may have overestimated China's flexibility. "There was never any intention by Beijing to change or loosen its grip on religion," he says. "Either they got an agreement on their terms, or they maintain the status quo under which they have pretty good control of the underground Catholic Church...
...Michael Skolnik and Rebecca Chaiklin, follows the crusade of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and others to get Governor George Pataki and the state legislatures to change those laws. It?s a closeup lesson in political compromise - or, as many supporters of change see it, the humiliating status quo. "The Right, they?re calling it a jail break," says Simmons, while the Left, "they want total repeal." An hour into the film, Pataki and Simmons do cut a deal, but one that reduces the penalty from 15 to 9 years and still doesn?t allow judges to ameliorate the sentence...
...missing in a meeting marked by shouts, sulks, scuffles, and walk-outs by council members.Monday’s match pitted a majority of the UC who hoped to overturn current council bylaws that prohibit funding of “discriminatory” groups (bill 62.35) against a status-quo contingency. Although outnumbered, the latter group pinned their hopes on amending Article 7 of the UC Constitution, which mainly deals with the passing of bylaws changes. Under this new bill, two-thirds of the Council would be required to pass any bylaw amendment rather than the current threshold...
...students to lift passages from other sources. But it also makes it easier to catch the copiers.The creator and chief executive of TurnItIn, John Barrie, said his software is an indispensable tool.“All the other methods, such as proctors and honor codes, are the status quo. That is what people have been trying to do and they have failed. This is the only technology that works to stop student plagiarism,” said Barrie, who started TurnItIn in 1996. Barrie added that Harvard would benefit from TurnItIn. “Especially at schools like Harvard, honest...